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...same grain. But even this apparent cut did not materially aid prices. The spring wheat crop remained as yet unestimated. The Farm Board, according to grain experts, is bucking the same world-wide economic depression that has retarded U. S. business, reduced U. S. exports and imports, crashed stockmarket prices to new lows...
Died. Louis Lucien Klotz, 62, War-time French Minister of Finance, deviser of many a scheme intended to restore the franc to par, who in 1928 resigned from the French Senate under charges of issuing bad checks to make up losses in the New York stockmarket, for which crime he was given a sentence, later suspended, of two years in prison (TIME, July 22); suddenly, in poverty; in Paris...
Already these myriads of power plants, tractor works, mines, factories and whole new cities for workers have meant to U. S. business since the stockmarket crash $450,000,000 in contracts now being executed. Moreover Amtorg, the principal trade representative of the Soviet Government in Manhattan, has bought more than $211,580,000 worth of U. S. goods in the past six years...
...partly an investment trust. Inasmuch as the bankers and the utility men were operating in the same northern New York district there was be tween them an obvious geographical com munity of interest. It is also true that both Niagara Share and Marine Union collided with the 1929 Stockmarket collapse, securities for which Niagara had paid some $100,000,000 during the year having declined to a value of some $70,000,000 at its close and securities for which Marine Union paid $32,000,000 having a Dec. 31 value of only $26,000,000, but there seemed...
There was a sharp fall in stockmarket prices last week (see p. 50). But it scarcely affected the securities of those eight great U. S. manufacturing and retail drug concerns who have listed their stocks with the New York Stock and Curb exchange.* This despite the fact that their business this spring has not been so good as usual due: 1) to the absence of an influenza epidemic last winter; 2) to the smaller purchasing power of drugstore customers affected by current unemployment and business depression. This second cause is a shock to both manufacturing druggists and retailers. They...