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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hand down decisions and generally fulfill functions formerly reserved to the courts insofar as they were performed at all was the most significant point in a speech he delivered before the American Law Institute last week. It was not, however the part of the Hughes speech which got the biggest headlines. This distinction was reserved for an apparently innocuous generalization: ". . . The prime necessity in making the judicial machinery work to the best advantage is the able and industrious judge, qualified by training, experience and temperament for his office...
...which had been floundering in red ink, asked for bids on a ship such as the Dutch had never owned. She was to be of 36,000 tons, 750 feet overall-only half the size of such mammoths as the Normandie and Queen Mary, but one of the dozen biggest passenger ships in the world, bigger than any U. S. ship save the late (German-built) Leviathan. Holland-America's two new managing directors, Frans C. Bouman, longtime general manager of Rotterdam Lloyd for the Far East, and Willem H. de Monchy of the Van Ommern shipping firm, vetoed...
...biggest, almost the fastest land transport plane in the U. S. It has a wingspan of 138 ft. 3 in., overall length of 97 ft. Nearly three times as heavy as the familiar DC-3, which is at present the favorite transport of all U. S. airlines, DC-4 will carry 42 passengers as a day plane, 30 passengers as a sleeper. Its top speed will be 240 m.p.h. Its 32½ tons will hurtle through the air a full mile in 15 seconds...
...Chase National Bank, who last fortnight was one of 16 business leaders pledging co-operation with Mr. Roosevelt. Taking occasion to attribute the President's theory of economic crises to Karl Marx and asserting that pump-priming will prove futile, the crop-haired chairman of the biggest U. S. commercial bank proclaimed: "Reforms which, coming one by one. would be sound and helpful, can generate chaos if they come so quickly that men cannot adjust themselves to all of them simultaneously. I think that nothing is more needed at the present time than a prolonged period of quiet...
...issue promptly went to a premium at $104, was oversubscribed in an hour. C. One of Myron Taylor's prescriptions for U. S. Steel Corp. when he was elected its finance committee chairman in 1927 was a realistic appraisal of its funded debt. In 1929, in the biggest industrial refinancing in U. S. history, he wiped out virtually all of it-$295,000,000-with money taken from surplus plus a $142,000,000 issue of common stock. But between 1932, when Myron Taylor became chairman of the board, and 1935 Big Steel lost $100,000,000. New plant...