Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Normally even-tempered and, though often profane, seldom bitter, Harry Hop kins becomes aroused when WPA is at tacked. One of its loudest critics lately has been Representative Hamilton Fish of New York who last month said of WPA that "the whole rotten mess stinks to high heaven and, like a dead mackerel in the moonlight, it stinks and shines and shines and stinks...
...doctors who read the report which Dr. Large and a chemist colleague. Dr. H. N. Brocklesby, published in last week's Canadian Medical Association Journal, it looked as though another form of diabetes relief, this time herbal, had come out of Canada. What element in the vegetable devil's-club made it apparently do the same job as the glandular product insulin was not revealed...
...advance in farm-equipment prices as compared with other manufactured products; 3) price rigidity in farm equipment during Depression; 4) swift rebound of farm-equipment prices after the Depression years to levels higher than 1929; 5) International Harvester's greater profits in 1937 ,than in 1929 though farm income in 1937 was 18% lower than 1929; 6) only slight decline in International Harvester's prices during Depression but sharp declines in production and employment as contrasted with competitive industries; 7) exchange of price lists among companies; 8) evidence of dealer coercion...
...dinners, Judge Gary in 1911 substituted the famed "Pittsburgh Plus" system-any steel consumer paid the Pittsburgh base price plus freight from Pittsburgh to his door, even though the steel might come from a mill in an entirely different location. From the steel-man's point of view, this was ideal, for it put all steel mills, no matter what their location, on an equal competitive footing all over the U. S. But consumers soon howled. A Chicago buyer in 1920 paid the $40 a ton Pittsburgh price plus $7.60 a ton freight from Pittsburgh, then found that...
...marked the return of J. P. Morgan & Co. from pure banking to promotional activities. Because United Corp. does not attempt to influence the operating policies of its affiliated power companies, it is a favorite of utility operating men. But this makes no difference to SEC. For, though power companies require heavy capitalizations that make financiers their logical bosses, SEC believes that systems of operating companies pyramided to a peak in Wall Street offer too many chances for overcapitalization at the expense of stockholder and consumer. This was the basis of the Public Utility Act of 1935, which United...