Word: basements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eastern end the main floor is entirely laid, but at the other a riveting gang is still working within the basement walls on a maze of scaffolding above murky pools of water on the floor...
...Massachusetts statute, passed in 1888. Treasurer Shea spent an hour hunting up the statute, found it, paid the $2. He also learned that the law required him to cut off and burn the seal's nose, as evidence a bounty had been paid. Descending to the basement, Shea carefully amputated the seal's nose, tossed it into the furnace. Then he billed the State for $2.50-$2 for the bounty, 50? for removing the nose...
...Basement of this railroad empire is Chesapeake & Ohio, which made $34,500,000 in 1937. From the penthouse Robert Young has held control of this prize possession through ownership of 46% of the common stock of Alleghany Corp., top holding company of all. In between Alleghany and C. & O. is another holding company, Chesapeake Corp., which owns 35% of C. & O. common stock. Guaranty Trust Co. has its hands on the elevator connecting all three because it has possession of Alleghany's 71% interest in Chesapeake Corp. as collateral on three bond issues now in technical default...
...proposed permanent home for the CRIMSON is to be located on Plympton street, just below Hampden Hall, according to the scheme outlined by H. M. Williams '85. The plans already made provide for a building of three stories and basement to be constructed in the Georgian type, in harmony with other University buildings. The edifice will be made of Harvard brick with stone trimmings...
...seemed last week that U. S. business was at a crossroads. With minor fluctuations, indices remained static at about the same level as the last four or five weeks. Economists wondered whether this was the basement of the Roosevelt Recession or only a landing on the escalator to ruin. As the President's inflationary plans for reviving business gave stocks and commodities a brisk rally, there were champions for both sides of the question...