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But in spite of their boom, furniture manufacturers were not cheery. They believed that retailers were stocking up faster than the public was buying. They feared that raw material prices would rise, boosting prices and nipping the industry's little boomlet. They gloomed that if World War II brings...
Representative Hamilton ("Ham") Fish Jr. stands six feet three in his stocking feet but prefers to measure his stature by inches of newsprint. Last week, by his own standard, he grew wonderfully tall.
Last week provided additional evidence that the Polish crisis was just one of several factors depressing stock prices. War markets have a normal pattern: ordinarily, a war scare forces stock prices down (because businessmen want cash) .and commodity prices up (because Governments and corporations want essential supplies). London markets ran...
Last week plump Business Manager Bickelhaupt called the Tribune staff together, gave a pep talk, promised a bigger and better newspaper to battle the Star-Journal for supremacy in the Northwest. Possibility: that the all-day Tribune would split into two papers, hold its morning circulation, go after the silk...
Coal: From 2,000,000 tons a week early in May production rose to 6,000,000 'cons at the end of the month, but coal freight shipments recovered to only 84% of the March level. After a few days of stocking up by utilities and other strike-hit...