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...Chvalkovsky knew that in a nearby Munich hotel was waiting former Hungarian Premier Dr. Koloman Daranyi on a mission from Budapest to ask the Chancellor to "advise" Czechoslovakia to yield 8,000 square miles to Hungary-enough territory to pinch off the eastern end of Czechoslovakia and give Hungary & Poland a common frontier. The Hungarians had been offered 2,000 square miles which they indignantly rejected last week and Hungarian Regent Horthy promptly mobilized approximately 500,000 troops with the slogan "for Peace...
...field strictly prorated, crude prices have been steady all year and crude oil stocks have been held down so much that on October 1 they were at a 15-year low of 280,852,000 bbls. But refiners, who did not see Depression II coming, have been feeling the pinch of reduced industrial demand and curtailed public consumption; their stocks of refined products now stand at phenomenal highs-fuel oil at 151,759,000 bbls. (116,164,000 year ago), gasoline at 68,602,000 bbls. (65,466,000 year...
Last year, when the ground started sliding away from under industrial feet, the axiom seemed due for testing. The networks began 1938 handsomely, ran up the biggest first quarter of their careers (11.4% above 1937's first quarter). The pinch came in April and some heads began to shake. But the axiom seems to be holding true. With an August boom, the networks began pulling out. Last week, gross revenues of the three major chains -MBS, NBC, CBS,-for the first eight months of 1938 came to $46,971,173, neatly topping...
Thus, although 1938 advertising appropriations may be shrinking, sales of radio time are obviously not feeling the pinch. These are taking as large a slice as they did in 1937, possibly larger. Last year, radio as a whole helped itself to about 17? of the U. S. advertising dollar,* running even with magazines, second to newspapers, which got 59?. Of radio's 17?, network-time sales took about 7?. The remainder went for air time sold by individual stations...
...there are more ways than one of skinning a Yankee. In July, Furness Line boats adopted the ship-hotel plan themselves, right in Hamilton harbor. This time hotels ashore really felt the pinch. At a session of the Legislature, a new bill was offered. It mentioned no U. S. shipping line, carefully exempted "transit passenger ships" (cruise ships), and, as a loophole in case of protests* placed a power of exemption in the hands of the Bermuda Trade Development Board. Last week in Bermuda's Legislature, over protests from St. George merchants, this bill became a law, subject...