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...hayfields were alive with blinded sparrows. Methodist congregations in Guymon, Okla. met three times a day to pray for rain._ Originally confined to a 200-mile strip between Canada and Mexico, last week's dust storm suddenly swirled eastward over Missouri, Iowa and Arkansas, crossed the Mississippi to unload on Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Louisiana. With half the nation blanketed in silt, farmers everywhere were asking what was going to happen to the wheat crop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Wheat & Dust | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

...first count, SEC found nothing except an ''unfortunate but nonculpable" delay in putting the directors' action on the news ticker, with the result that Baldwin's home town of Philadelphia got a one-hour jump on Wall Street in the scramble to unload Baldwin securities. On the second count, SEC found that Baldwin's 1933 annual "report "misled the investing public" because the directors' action, "evidencing an impaired working capital position, came as a surprise to the investing public rather than as the acceptance of a situation long in the making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: First Thunder | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

...sold 123,622 shares of Pittsburgh Coal Co. stock to his Union Trust Co. for $500,000, claiming a $5,600,000 loss for income tax purposes, after which the shares were purchased by a Mellon family folding company. Last week Mr. Mellon declared that he had wanted to unload the stock for years but could find no takers. Tightlipped, menacing, Counsel Jackson advanced on the witness. "You don't mean to say," barked he, "that you had no opportunity to sell before December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Self-Defense | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

Taxicabs coming through Cambridge and along Memorial Drive are requested to turn left at Putnam Square into Putnam Avenue to Flagg Street and Flagg Street to Memorial Drive where they may unload their passengers at Mac Nameo Square which is at the Cambridge end of the John W. Weeks Bridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLICE CLEAR STREETS FOR FOOTBALL CROWDS | 10/20/1934 | See Source »

...handlers normally employed by the Union Stock Yards to feed, water, unload, load, drive and weigh cattle struck originally last November for better wages and hours. That strike was quickly settled when it was agreed to submit all questions in dispute to an arbitrator. Federal Judge Philip L. Sullivan was suggested by the union and accepted by the company. On June 1 he rendered a decision: A 10% to 25% wage increase retroactive for 13 weeks, a 40-hour work week and the stipulation that those terms were to be binding on both parties until June 1935. Six weeks after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Hell on the Hoof | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

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