Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number three blade is Dud Talbot who was shifted at the eleventh hour last year to race against Yale. He ends the six-foot-three block which extends from the number seven to three position. John Richards '40 is at the two oar and while still a bit ragged has exceptional endurance...
...decline in prices-19.7? a Ib. down to 11.3? since last year. Also the International Tin Committee ordered tin exports cut from 55% to 45% of standard tonnages. In Washington, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace said he would soon reduce sugar quotas in the U. S. The petroleum industry, still hopeful of maintaining current prices, cut production to its lowest point in many months-3,098,650 bbl. daily, 77.8% of capacity...
Other items of Depression II: ¶. In October 1936, General Electric Co. instituted its Cost of Living Adjustment Plan, paid employes making $4,000 and less a bonus based on the Department of Labor's cost-of-living index. Still on this basis, G.E. last week cut its bonus from 5% to 3%, its common stock dividend from...
...generals made a deal: C. & O.'s board was increased from nine to eleven members to include three Guaranty lieutenants, John Hollister, John Dickinson and Earle Bailie, the latter to rill a vacancy. Technically, this was a compromise; but Robert Young considered it a victory, for he still had about half the stockholders and most of the directors in his camp.*Last week in Cleveland the new board re-elected Mr. Young's C. & O. management, including President George Doswell Brooke. Directors also voted to pay a 25?dividend on July 1, said they planned to pay another...
...writers. Smartly, Mr. Sedgwick returned the blows. During Editor Sed-wick's recent travels, his place has been taken by wiry, effervescent Editor Edward Augustus Weeks Jr. La.;t week, 40-year-old "Ted" Weeks assumed the hallowed title of editor-in-chief; 66-year-old Ellery Sedgwick, still spry and still owner of the Atlantic, will continue to be its dominant editorial voice...