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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lieutenant Kreml, son of a Chicago packer and politician, formulated the theories behind the Accident Prevention organizations now established throughout the U. S. These are: 1) "Lawbreaking of any kind can be reduced by punishing the lawbreakers swiftly and surely," 2) "By enforcement of the Law the police of any city can reduce fatal and nonfatal accidents...
After two years on the force, Evanston let him install his own bureau, instruct brother officers in his methods of checking accidents. So loyally did his city stand behind him that, in spite of an increase in automobiles, Evanston's motor death rate in nine years dropped from 21.8 per 100,000 to 2.9. In 1932 Kreml organized what later became Northwestern's Traffic Safety Institute in which police officers from all parts of the U. S. enroll in two courses, one general course of two weeks, the other a full university term from October to June...
When the board met fortnight ago, both books had been approved by a State textbook committee of educators. Harcourt's price was lower ($1.06 to $1.17 bid by Row, Peterson), but the board has leeway to judge quality. While the seven board members deliberated behind closed doors, it was reported that Board President Ghent Sanderford, former Governor James Ferguson's man, favored the Harcourt book, that another member was equally strong for an agent of Row, Peterson, a former local school superintendent who had helped nurse him through three years of tuberculosis...
...Mill opened at $15.50 (down $4.75), closed back at $20.25. Trading volume in the first two hours was 3,890,000 shares, by day's close had reached 7,287,080, greatest since 1933. Fluctuations were the widest since 1929. At one point the ticker was 22 minutes behind, traders many minutes behind that as orders stacked up at the posts...
...that night predicting a thumping bull market in Manhattan next morning. Instead, to the confusion of prophets, railroad stocks and most others fell like a load of corncobs dumped from a hopper car. In heavy trading for a half-day (1,570,000 shares), the ticker lagged four minutes behind and order clerks went hoarse as prices dropped as much as ten points. U. S. Steel thudded to a new low of $52.50, New York Central to a low that day of $18.38. Bonds were under heavy fire from selling and grew cheaper & cheaper. At the close...