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The other five members were Sidney Hillman, vice-president of the C. I. O. and president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Chester C. Davis, a governor of the Federal Reserve Board, Chairman Ralph Budd of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad, Leon Henderson, member of the Securities and Exchange Commission...
But in so grueling a week, two ideas were too much for the market to absorb. Soon Hitler seemed to be marching across France. Out of Washington the ticker carried stories of peace before the end of summer. Down went prices again, gaining momentum. The week ended with heavy selling...
Commodities. That national defense spending would do consumer goods little good was the opinion of last week's commodity markets. Most prices fell. Worst sufferer was a consumer and export commodity-wheat. July futures dropped from $1.08½ a bushel to 79? with such breath-taking speed that Secretary...
Eighty-five percent of the world's productive veins of quicksilver ore (cinnabar) lie in Spain and Italy. The great Spanish mine of Almaden, worked at least since Hannibal's time, was a prime pawn in the late Spanish war. A European cartel, pioneered by the Rothschilds, controls...
Last December, an argument over utility equity financing was precipitated by SEC's mooted Consumers Power decision (TIME, Jan. 8), in which Wendell Willkie of Commonwealth & Southern (Consumers' parent) was told he could not raise $10,000,000 of new money by selling Consumer bonds, should sell stock...