Word: somes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, wheat sold at Liverpool for less than at any time on record, July corn sold at Chicago for less than at any time in six years, October cotton was quoted at New York for 1½? less than the week before. The auto industry was in its summer...
In this same week business' most sensitive barometer-the stockmarket as mirrored in the Dow-Jones industrial averages-enthusiastic over prospects for the second half of 1939, dashed off a sensational 6.1-point rise, reached its highest point since March (144.7 against 152.3 then). For the first week in...
Pleasing as those figures were to natty Grover Whalen, they still left him with a big fiscal headache. In twelve weeks attendance totaled some 14,700,000 (including almost 3,500,000 free admissions), about half what he had hoped for. He had forecast a $4,000,000 loss if...
Sportsmen and municipal officials set up such a howl that papermaking States have threatened to crack down on the dumping. Some foresighted paper-mill operators had hired chemists to see whether the waste liquor could be turned to profit. One of the leaders in that move was cagey Marathon Paper...
Edwin Howard Armstrong, bald, blue-eyed, well-heeled professor of electrical engineering at Columbia University, has made a tidy fortune for himself by inventing the super-regenerative and superheterodyne radio circuits. For the last 25 years he has been working on the problems of static, interference, tube noises and fading...