Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite this sniping, Classmate Bertie demonstrated last week that he still had the old school spirit. Early one morning, a fire started among the newsprint rolls in the basement of the Times plant, crippling the presses. Promptly, the Tribune offered its presses. Promptly, the Times accepted the Tribune''?, "good neighbor" offer and, missing but one edition, managed to run off 250,000 of its normal 380,000 daily print order. Fun-loving Times Managing Editor Louis Ruppel, onetime Washington correspondent of the New York Daily News, put a picture of his smoking plant on the front page with...
...Since the last convention, the Guild conducted eleven strikes, more than in all its four previous years. About 450 strikers were involved, more than double the total ever on strike before. Of the eleven strikes, the Guild called nine "definite victories," one lost, one (Hollywood Citizen-News) still in progress...
...five & ten" is now pretty much a misnomer, with Woolworth and Kresge selling items up to $1. But in England "three & six penny'' still has some semblance of accuracy. Woolworth's, which opened its first English store in 1909 and last year had 711 with profit of $32,000,000. no longer adheres to the strict price policy. But its biggest rival, the 228 Marks & Spencer stores which earned just over $8,000,000 in 1937, still does...
...present low level of commodity prices not only chills business confidence and causes inventory losses but slows public buying in anticipation of still lower prices. Result is a general stagnation which continues until stocks are so depleted that extensive buying must be renewed, forcing prices to turn upward. Last week, Standard Statistics saw no sign of U. S. business reaching this fundamental crossroad in the immediate future. Neither did Colonel Leonard Porter Ayres in his monthly sound-off. True, solid gains in crop prices on the report of bad weather and rust jumped Moody's commodity index...
Among other items in last week's price news were two which surely pleased Franklin Roosevelt, one which offered some hope of business improvement: 1) The price of galvanized steel sheet was cut $3 a ton. Steel is one thing that Franklin Roosevelt still considers too costly and he has often remarked that the steel industry will not revive until prices are cut. But steel prices are as stiff as any in the country and this opinion bounced off steelmasters like BB shot off a tank. Last week it seemed that where Franklin Roosevelt had failed to dent their...