Word: assets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certain opportunities for affecting desirable results," Judge Mack did not order dissolution, although an injunction against the price-fixing practices was issued. On appeal, the Supreme Court reaffirmed the Mack findings last spring with a few minor modifications. Its pristine vitality gone, its name more a liability than an asset, the Sugar Institute meantime whittled down its activities to the gathering of innocent sugar statistics. Publicly the sugar men took their legal spanking in good grace. Privately they complain that other trade associations were, and still are, getting away with things that the Sugar Institute never even attempted...
...Kevorkian, rugged tackle for the Harlowmen, is likewise expected to report for a defense post. Ineligible last year, Kevorkian has had no chance to show his ability, but should he step with opponents on the ice as he does on the field, he will prove a valuable asset...
...home in Oakland things were going even worse. Representing $819,000 worth of defaulted bonds, a committee of five investment bankers moved to foreclose every avail able scrap of St. Mary's property, including the funds accruing to the Galloping Gaels, who are their college's soundest asset...
Since then, the Penn and Central lines have been bitter rivals. Central's chief asset was the mail contract from Detroit to Washington, Pennsylvania's the longer route with a mail contract between Detroit and Milwaukee. Central plumped for trimotored Stinsons, Pennsylvania for twin-motored Boeings. The battle involved rate cuts, protests to the Post Office and the I. C. C. Neither side won an advantage. Both thrived. In 1935 Pennsylvania's passenger traffic was 200% better than in 1934. This year the gain has been nearly as great. Central did equally well; August...
...role cannot be too highly praised, either when the college is represented as a group or individually. Harvard graduates and under-graduates should and must take an even greater part in the political activities of the state and country. If and when they do, they will prove an asset both to the University and to the system of education under which they were fostered...