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...states gather local figures for compilation by the U. S. Labor Department. Not until the 1930 Census is taken in April can the true picture of labor conditions throughout the land be revealed. When President Hoover happily announced last month that U. S. employment had at last turned upward following the stockmarket crash, it was at best an intelligent guess. New York State Industrial Commissioner Frances Perkins declared last week that January unemployment in her state was the worst in 15 years, that labor conditions were "very serious." While the U. S. Labor Department insisted that employment would be normal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Jobless | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

...sell for more than $100 and the majority bring less than $50 at the time of issue. "Prices subject to change without notice" was the announcement on a catalog of a recent large Manhattan exhibition, indicating the speculative spirit which is driving U. S. prices upward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: U. S. Etching v. British | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

Quick Profits. Throughout 1928 the stock market showed a continual trend upward. In incomes of under $25,000, 15% of the profits were from assets held less than two years, probably indicating the extent of profitable speculation. In the groups of higher incomes 10.3% was from this same source, against 6.92% the year before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: 1928 Incomes | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

...great. Even without this brilliant stunt White Rock prospered. At first it had been sold only locally. Then a chance sample reached a Manhattan gambling hall owner who obtained a 50-year sales agency which the company later bought back. From then on White Rock's sales bubbled upward. In 1906 the present company bought Welsh out for about $2,000,000; in 1929 its net profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mixings Mixture? | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

...most noteworthy, certainly the most celebrated, of his 47 paintings which hung at the Grand Central last week was Mourning Her Brave: the figure of a squaw, standing in snow at the edge of a cliff. Birds circle in the grey sky over her head, the snow stretches upward behind her over rocks, she raises her wide shoe-button eyes into a sky that is empty of all things except snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brush v. Brooks-Aten | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

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