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...particularly up & down career. Created by accident after a crash, it has climbed to some of the greatest heights, endured some of the dizziest falls of any concern in the business. Last week, true to form, after a long anxious glide Boeing was once more roaring upward with new gallons in the gas tank and prosperity at the joystick...
...contact. The implications of this work are no less great for common ignorance of it. Field work and first hand study are of the utmost necessity to the perpetuating of living knowledge, as the discovery of primary sources alone can keep the business of education and civilization headed upward. It is toward these broad objectives that the Peabody Museum expeditions have bent their efforts...
Throughout 1936 while other commodities were booming upward the average price of crude oil remained steady around $1.05 per bbl. Late in the year Dan Moran's Continental Oil and Edwin B. Reeser's Barnsdall Oil announced that they would open the play in 1937 with a 17? boost. This they did, but their fellow oilmen stayed out of the game, creating a dual price level in mid-continent territory. Then last week the rest of the industry decided to jack their prices not 17? but 12?, and Messrs. Moran & Reeser had to come down. Uniform posted prices...
...interest rates were still discouragingly low. Government bonds were still by far the largest asset item. Commercial banks at the year end held no less than 60% of the total national debt. Over bulging bond portfolios, over record bond prices, the bankers were a little jittery, fearing the inevitable upward turn in interest rates which will end the great est bull bond market in U. S. history (TIME, June...
...182Walter Hoving, a Swede from Stockholm, got his first push upward...