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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bing" or "Klondike" is what convicts in Philadelphia's County Prison at suburban Holmesburg, Pa. call it: a narrow, thick-walled little brick cell block where fractious inmates are put for "treatment." It holds nine cells, each 8 ft. long, 4 ft. wide, 10 ft. high. In each cell are a small sink with one spigot, a "hopper" (toilet) and six bolts in the wall for cots. Walls & floor are rough concrete, doors sheet steel, with small ventilating holes at the bottom. Three windows and several small roof outlets comprise the ventilation of the building. Across a two-foot...
...Marienbad last week, the age owner of the Hotel Weimar created Czechoslovak stir by opening the "Royal Suite," last occupied in 1909 by British King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra when they came to "take the waters." Down from its wall came a portrait of bewhiskered Kaiser Franz Josef and up went a photograph of smooth-face Führer Henlein. The new occupant of the Suite was Sudeten Nazi Leader Konrad Henlein who went there to confer with representative of Britain's mediator, Viscount Runciman...
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...
...morning last week a group of Manhattan underwriters met in a light, breezy room of Morgan Stanley & Co. at No. 2 Wall Street. That afternoon a Morgan Stanley syndicate was to begin selling the biggest foreign bond issue since April 1937-$25,000,000 in 4 ½%, ten-year Argentine bonds. Having already spent a rumored $50,000 to prepare the issue, the underwriters expected by noon to fix the price, parcel out the shares. At 11:45 tne telephone rang. The Argentine Government, said a spokesman calling from Buenos Aires, wished to call off the deal; "market conditions" were...
...whey; the curd is then washed, dried and ground into the finished product. Since 1921 U. S. production of casein has risen from 8,000,000 to 40,000,000 Ib. annually. Biggest consumers are paper makers (who use 70% of the yearly output for coating book, magazine and wall paper), paint and glue manufacturers (12% each) and the plastic industry...