Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little like George Raft, likes to be compared to John L. Lewis. Last week, 18,000 unionists, members of the Syndicate of Petroleum Workers, had good reason to cheer. A 3,250-page, nine-volume decision in their favor was handed down by a special commission named by the Board of Arbitration to investigate Mexico's oil industry. It aimed to settle the long-simmering dispute between the Sindicator de la Industria Petrolera, employers' syndicate, and the 18,000 oil workers...
...Hupp sales had dropped to $6,118,000 in 1933 and recovered only to $6,868,000 in 1935. Depressed by Hupp's million-dollar losses and by Archie Andrews' merchandising schemes, parts supply companies were refusing to extend credit. In January 1936. Hupp 's new board of directors stopped manufacturing Hupmobiles...
...however, was not opened to public bidding but sold privately in March 1936 to Baum, Bernheimer Co. of Kansas City. Other bond houses were not slow to point out that the State lost about $20,000 in premiums on this deal. But last September the State Board of Fund Commissioners again sold $2,000,000 worth of bonds privately, again to Baum, Bernheimer and again at a lower premium than the bonds would have brought in public sale...
...Louis bankers thereupon asked and received from sedate Governor Stark written assurance that the next time Missouri bonds were put on the market they would be opened to competitive bidding. Lulled by the Governor's words, they woke up shocked and angry last fortnight when the State Board of Fund Commissioners blandly announced the sale to Baum, Bernheimer Co. of the last $3,000,000 worth of building bonds at a premium of $100,000. Governor Stark was vacationing in Alaska...
...last week that tireless journalistic tribune of the people, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, had gone far enough into the background of the sale to start a first class Missouri scandal. The Board of Fund Commissioners' official explanation of Baum, Bernheimer's third big bond purchase was that the State Bi-Partisan Advisory Board had recommended "immediate" sale of the bonds to pay for July and August construction work at State prisons, that a public sale would have taken at least 30 days. Advisory Board Chairman Sam E. Trimble, however, declared that the board had been aware...