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When the full committee filed in around the baize-covered table, they found before them one of the tightest prohibition bills in history-a bill in effect forbidding any U. S. citizen from leaving the Western Hemisphere while war raged outside...
...been such a source of interest to the outside world. For in the next few weeks enough cocoons will have come to market for the silk industry to estimate the size of the 1939-40 crop. And upon that size depends: 1) the immediate outcome of the, tightest U. S. silk squeeze in history, 2) the fate of certain speculators, 3) whether the cost of silk stockings on the leg is going to be higher this summer...
...medley team is a cinch to add five points to the Tiger score, even without Van de Weghe. As a result, the Nassau backstroker will probably swim the 220 against Cutler. Powers, on Curwen, with Ned Parks as his running mats. This event promises to be one of the tightest of the year for all of the contestants are carable of better than...
...Investment Bankers Association of America convened at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., last week and simultaneously Wall Street witnessed one of the tightest squeezes in market history due to a unique set of circumstances which perfectly illustrate the unhappy state of investment banking...
...December corn in Chicago, the crop is worth about $1,606,000,000. Last week, with this huge harvest due to begin pouring on the market about Oct. 1, by a freak of commerce the corn futures market on the Chicago Board of Trade was threatened by the tightest "natural squeeze" or corn shortage in years. This was due to the fact that last year's short crop left the smallest carryover of this century. As a result, corn brokers anticipated trouble fulfilling their contracts for September futures which come due on Sept. 30, before the new crop reaches...