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...spoke Walter P. Burrier '50, of Lowell House, one of the numerous young song composers in the United States who is striving to get his works published. "A College orchestra could do a lot to boost compositions by its own undergraduates," he explained...
There was little hope that Army discharges, now past their peak, would supply the needed men. Nor would the pool of unemployed; it was already down to 2,000,000. The hard fact was that the U.S. could not boost production much higher if it needed many more hands to do it. But it could if those at work did a better job. The hope now was for increased labor efficiency, like post...
...holdings equal 25% of federal monetary reserves, or until the price reaches $1.29 an ounce. But the Treasury has been able to sell silver only if the Silver Bloc is willing. For the last six months the Bloc has not been willing because Congress was not willing to boost the price of silver. Result: silver has been so scarce that the PhotoEngravers Board of Trade of New York went so far as to melt silver dollars to get silver for industrial uses (photographic plates, solder...
Other stocks, hoarded by speculators for the anticipated price boost, will soon be pouring into the market. But the speculators are in for a disappointment: the 90.5? price applies only to new silver mined after July...
...silver, chances are the taxpayer will pay more & more to the greedy Silver Bloc as time goes on. After World War I the world price of silver dropped from $1.37 ½ to 24 ½? an ounce (in 1932). If that happens again, taxpayers and manufacturers will have to boost their ante to the Bloc from 19.4? to 66? an ounce...