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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sound & Fury. For all their persuasive details, such arguments were built on shaky economic ground. Were gold miners entitled to a raise? Since 1927 the price of gold has gone up 69%, while wholesale prices in general have risen only 60%. Actually, a free market would not change the price...
¶ Has no day-in, day-out hobby, but tries to purge his system of a week's bottled-up jitters in a rugged physical workout once a week.
When the five Securities & Exchange Commissioners picked a chairman last week, they surprised and cheered Wall Street. Their choice: Harry A. McDonald, 55, the first Republican boss of SEC since it was set up in 1934. SEC's three Democratic commissioners voted for McDonald to succeed Edmond Hanrahan, who...
When he opened the world's biggest drugstore in Hollywood two years ago, Rexall Drug, Inc.'s President Justin Whitlock Dart threw a $90,000 party complete with film stars, searchlights and 10,000 free orchids. To Justin Dart, onetime tackle at Northwestern University, the celebration was the...
The trouble was that Rexall's expansion program had been badly timed. Older, smaller stores had been closed up before the big new superstores could be opened. On top of that, many a small store was sold at a heavy loss simply to get rid of it while the...