Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Production. The Federal Reserve Board last week released its production index for July: 102, up from 98 for June. This rise (which represented not an increase in production but the fact that most business did not decline as usual in July-for the index is seasonally adjusted) reflected in part unusually early machinery, parts and materials production for the 1940 auto models (on show already...
Last week Pete Couch (who got his start as a railroad fireman), was elected president of Kansas City Southern, now heads both roads and will boss the merged system. Big Brother Harvey (who started out as a railway mail clerk) became board chairman of Louisiana & Arkansas. He also heads the Kansas City Southern board...
...chilly windswept Peterhead (pop. 15,000) on the North Sea shoulder of Scotland, four directors of the hauling firm of James Sutherland, Ltd. sat dourly at a table in Victoria Stables one day last week. Stout, sixtyish Board Chairman George Birnie Anderson was making a bitter fuss, complaining about the management of the firm's 100-odd busses and vans, of its 200 employes...
More and more bitter did the board chairman become. Suddenly from Victoria Stables rang a most un-British sound: a revolver shot, then another. White-faced, a clerk ran to the street shouting: "Something terrible has happened." To a hospital in Aberdeen went Board Secretary William Macintosh, shot in the head, and Director Bailie W. McDougall Gordon, senior magistrate of Peterhead, shot in the leg. To jail went gun-toting Board Chairman Anderson...
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