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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...labor peace? Will other prices follow down the price of steel? Can industry afford to buy materials months in advance in the face of threatening inventory losses and production curtailment? How soon will the auto-steel logjam break, so that Detroit can again lead U. S. business to another upturn? And, more philosophically, do price reductions pay when they don't coax new business out of hiding? Meanwhile, the copper industry demonstrated that Henry Ford's low price-big volume doctrine is still worth something. Last week, copper companies, who recently got new orders by cutting prices from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Ford Philosophy | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Harvard's Varsity hockey fortunes showed an upturn, when Clark Hodder's team turned in a surprise 4-2 win over highly-touted Queens in the Garden Monday night. That is, everyone was surprised except Clark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN DOWNED 4-2 BY BELMONT SEXTET | 1/11/1939 | See Source »

...real meat of last week's meeting (although fulminations made most of the headlines), was contained in a report of A. B. A.'s economic policy commission, which includes such famed bankers as A. P. Giannini, Winthrop Aldrich and Leonard P. Ayres. Acknowledging that "this present business upturn clearly appears to mark the beginning of a new business cycle," the report offered a gloomy pronouncement that "banks in general may not derive profit from this business expansion, even if it continues with unabated vigor throughout next year. . . ." U. S. banking at present is like the hungry mouse which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY & BANKING: Think That Over | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

Credit for last year's particularly encouraging upturn belongs jointly to a revamping of the system based on Student Council recommendations and to the active and efficient direction of Mr. Samborski. These two factors have collaborated to reduce the number of defaults, increase participation as well as the varieties of available sports. Their collaboration in the future can be confidently expected to produce a still greater vigor and mounting value to Harvard's House athletics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR DIRECTOR | 9/28/1938 | See Source »

About a year ago, Wall Street underwriters foresaw another upturn. Some 135 loans, big & small, had been announced. Suddenly a double disaster occurred. A $44,000,000 issue of new Pure Oil stock attracted so little interest underwriters had to put the bulk of it in cold storage; on $48,000,000 worth of Bethlehem Steel debentures underwriters were estimated to have lost $1,725,000. Other businesses contemplating new stock and bond issues called off their plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: Booms and Bogs | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

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