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...swing in behind Oklahoma and Texas for better oil prices, Kansas, through its Public Service Commissioner, ordered producers to boost crude prices to 60? per bbl. or show cause why their wells should not be closed down...
Thanks very much for the wonderful boost you gave us (TIME, May 25, June 8). I am enclosing a copy of our paper [Chitina, Alaska Weekly Herald]. I cannot resist thanking you again along with this paper, although I sent you a letter by last boat...
...drummer. Cotton traders agreed that it was a gesture, not a cotton speculation, because 200,000 bales would be too infinitesimal a quantity to affect the broad price of a crop that runs into 13 or 14 million bales. And for a shrewd piece of publicity to boost Wrigley sales in the South, advertising men gave Mr. Wrigley full credit. Like wheat in western Canada, cotton in the South is the overwhelmingly important thing in the material welfare of almost every man, woman & child, white or black. As such cotton looms ever-present in the buying consciousness. To make southerners...
...Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news: In Evanston, Ill., dancer Mariana Michalska (Gilda Gray) was enlisted to boost ticket sales for Northwestern Uni- versity's senior ball. A band played. Dancer Gray pranced. Northwesterners bought three tickets, suggested she take off her coat. She fled...
...book called "World Without End" by Helen Thomas, wife of the English poet, Edward Thomas, brings back memories of some of the more glaring examples of stupidity in Boston book censorship. It is true that the words "Banned in Boston" on the jacket of a novel will boost its sales tremendously, but in most cases the Boston book censor is not worthy of this reputation for the detection of horrid words and passages. As an example of this the first part of "World Without End" appeared some years ago under the title of "As It Was." This fragment...