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...resigned. Whatever the future might hold he and the true Socialists of the party would stand together on giving 25 shillings a week to all workers over 60, raising the school age by a year, a state fund to help industry, a central board to buy food and raw material not obtainable in England...
...years ago, rumors were heard of a new aid to the industry, to be administered from the consumers' instead of producers' end. Goodyear, Goodrich, U. S. Rubber, Firestone, said reports, would ally themselves as copper companies have done, would attempt to eliminate violent price fluctuations in both raw and finished rubber...
...year ago. Steel has held fairly well, with March's rate of 122.6% contrasting to 145.2% for the same month in 1929. The U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (using 1926 as 100%) give the following price changes for March against March 1929: All commodities, 90.8% against 97.5%; raw materials, 89.3% against 98.9%; farm products, 94.7% against 107.1%; chemicals and drugs, 91.2% against 95.6%; cotton domestic consumption for March was 508,600 bales of lint against 631,700. Building contracts for the first quarter were down to $1,100,200,000, $155,700,000 off from the first quarter last...
Stokowski has permitted himself to develop prima donna tendencies but the public at large continues to encourage them -perhaps because, like a shrewd prima donna, he has stayed picturesque: preserved his figure by exercise and a strict raw-vegetable diet, his fluffy golden hair by washing it every day himself. He is (with Boston's Koussevitzky a close second) the best-groomed conductor in the U. S., although it has often pleased him to shock fastidious gatherings by appearing in golf clothes. In public places it takes him an impressive length of time to remove his coat and arrange...
...back of last week's exchange closing. Within the past two years the value of shares listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange has fallen 30%. The removal of the embargo on gold shipments out of Japan has seriously depleted the country's gold reserve. Decreased U. S. demand for raw silk has brought a slump to Japan's chief export industry. Last week's cotton strike, and a hint of further labor troubles, brought Japanese brokers to panic's edge. Deeply concerned was the cabinet of Prime Minister Yuko Hamaguchi. A Tokyo correspondent quoted the opinion of several cabinet members...