Word: tins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the New York Commodity Exchange celebrated its first anniversary under one roof. Silk had been dull for more than a year. Hide sales had dropped 47,000,000 lb. Copper, restricted by NRA price controls, had been inactive for months, as had tin, affected by cartels abroad. Trading in silver futures slumped off three weeks ago when the Silver Purchase Act slapped a 50% tax on the profits of silver speculators. Only rubber continued to be active. Last week the Commodity Exchange, casting about for other staples in which its 950 members could do business, established a futures...
...scenery and Metropolitan singers. Contralto Margaret Matzenauer as Saint-Saens' Dalila gesticulated as if she were suspended from invisible gymnasium rings, sang in a pleasantly intimate voice. Tenor Paul Althouse was Samson. Conducting was Russian-born Alexander Smallens of the Philadelphia Orchestra, who between acts bathed in a tin tub he brought with...
...Post Office Expenditures 5,000 Judge Ritter of Florida 5,000 Revenue Laws 10,000 Bankruptcy & Receivership Proceedings 17,500 Conservation of Wild Life Resources 7,500 Nazi Propaganda 30,000 Holding Companies 100,000 Veterans' Pensions 7,500 Petroleum Industry 25,000 War Department Expenditures 30,000 Tin Resources of World 10,000 Congressional Campaign Expenditures 10,000 Bond Holders Committee...
Last week President Roosevelt and William Green ran an exciting relay race against a strike in the steel industry. The start was in Pittsburgh where the president of the American Federation of Labor went to try to persuade the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers to call off its strike plans. The finish was in Washington where President Roosevelt flashed across the Congressional adjournment deadline a winner with a new law to combat strikes in any industry. By the time Mr. Green reached the starting post Amalgamated was already in convention to vote the strike and nearby steel companies...
...Poets Arthur Rimbaud, with a translation of the famed Bateau Ivre. THE PROVINCIAL LADY IN AMERICA- E. M. Delafield-Harper ($2). Author Delafield's famed Provincial Lady visits the U. S., keeps her ironic eyes open. To those not already bored by her she will seem refreshingly funny. TIN SOLDIERS-Robert Wohlforth-Al-fred H. King ($2). Realistic novel of West Point, by one who went there...