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Though charts are only one of many sources for Stein?and securities men, in any case, are divided about their predictive value???the floor of his office is usually cluttered with enormous books of them, made up daily. During and between phone calls, Stein riffles through the charts, making occasional notes. "They speak! They speak...
Table-grape growers are particularly vulnerable to strikes because their product requires continual attention through much of the year. Since the appearance of the fruit affects its value???unlike the case of wine grapes?the bunches must be carefully picked by hand. Because of their vulnerability, Chavez picked the table-grape growers as his first target. In 1966, after a strike, he got his first contract when Schenley Industries capitulated because it had a nationally known name at stake. Later that year he won the right to represent workers at the mammoth Di Giorgio ranch in an election monitored...
...crux of the matter is that the law requires tourists to declare "the full foreign value" of merchandise bought abroad. Tourists ordinarily know but one foreign value???the price they paid?and almost invariably set down and pay duty on the retail price. Yet the law defines the full foreign value as "the market value or the price . . . in the usual wholesale quanti- ties." Every businessman knows that the average retail price is about 50% greater than the wholesale price, yet tourists commonly pay duty on the former...
...people. . . . This great country for many years has been building up enormous industries, and it has learned that if it is to succeed in rivaling the same kind of industries in other lands, it must take into consideration the ingredient which gives many of them their greatest value???the quality of art. It has only now determined upon that rivalry. It has now come to the point of desiring to excel in this quality of art as well as in technical, mechanical, or practical excellence, to which it has bent all of its endeavors heretofore...
...exceed a total of $150 per annum, the annual sum of $10,000,000 to be earmarked for this purpose. All others holders?this part of the law being designed to avoid rewarding speculators who, since 1920, were active in buying the bonds at a fraction of their original value???are not to receive any interest and must wait the 'pleasure of the Government for the 5% redemption...