Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...watched the new 52-passenger ship as she swung out past Point Loma. Among them, none watched more intently than Engineer David Richard Davis, because none had a bigger stake in her than he. For David Davis had designed her slim no-foot wing, had calculated on the drawing board and in the wind tunnel that it was close to perfection...
...last week most U. S. Catholic weeklies had ignored an official statement of U. S. bishops deploring "all forms of racial bigotry." This pronouncement, made in Washington by members of the administrative board of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, was released last April 22. It was of a policy-making kind which the Catholic press would ordinarily frontpage. Among the few papers which featured it: the Michigan Catholic, St. Paul Wanderer, Buffalo Catholic Union and Times, Pittsburgh Catholic Observer, New York Catholic News...
American's stock, with 290,000 outstanding shares (biggest single owner, Errett Cord: 20,000 shares), is considerably smaller than the average issue admitted to the Big Board. And American, having been listed on the Curb only three years, has neither the profit record nor the "seasoning" that has traditionally been required for Stock Exchange listing. But the exchange was glad to list American as the largest unit of a growing industry. American is glad to have the more active market on the Big Board, for it may be obliged to issue more shares to improve its current weak...
...thing the cotton textile industry has never been accused of is monopolistic tendencies. One of the biggest sources of U. S. payrolls, a weighty factor in the Federal Reserve Board's production index, the cotton textile industry is composed of 1,000 desperately competitive and generally unprofitable mills. About the only check on production the industry knows is the capacity of its warehouses. As long ago as last October the warehouses held over 150,000,000 yards of print cloth, about three times as much 'as was sold that month. But the mills, as is their habit, kept...
...John D. Jr. As treasurer of the Museum since 1937, Nelson raised the funds for the new building (on which only $200,000 of $2,000,000 remained last week unpaid). In picking him to succeed frosty-headed A. (for Anson) Conger Goodyear, hard-working president since 1929, the Board of Trustees well pleased the person who was not only a founder but a moving spirit of the Museum: Nelson's publicity-hating mother, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. That the presidency of the Museum is no longer-if it ever was-merely a family, clique, or society function, the principal...