Word: bonding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Month ago in Manhattan, idle seamen complained to the municipal employment bureau that certain U. S. yacht owners were importing foreign seamen under bond to run their boats, instead of employing U. S. hands. The bureau took the names of the yachtsmen complained against, sent them to Secretary of Labor Doak. Last week in Manhattan the sport of tycoons was again mentioned in connection with unemployment. Explained Broker Edward F. Button, owner of Hussar...
...Bond & Mortgage Receivership. As long ago as September 1929, American Bond & Mortgage Co., Inc. was in trouble and Chicago Title & Trust Co. was endeavoring to extricate it. Last week hope for a reorganization was abandoned. On the application of Harley T. Clarke, powerman, a "friendly" receiver was appointed. American Bond & Mortgage financed apartments, hotels and office buildings, usually kept the common stock of these buildings. Its financing of Washington's big Mayflower Hotel (in which Halsey, Stuart & Co. participated) was under Congressional discussion. Last week five Mayflower bondholders, with Mabel Walker Willebrandt as attorney, obtained a receiver...
...Harvard Observatory at Cambridge will soon become possessor of the largest telescope in the east, it was announced last night by Dr. Harlow Shapley in a speech before the annual dinner of the Bond Astronomical Club. It will be of the reflector type, similar in size and in the general details of construction to the 60-inch telescope of the Harvard Observatory now being installed at its southern Station in Bioemfontein, South Africa...
...announcement of construction of the 60-inch telescope follows closely upon the statement that a large extension is to be erected during the summer for the double purpose of providing an auditorium for the periodic meetings of the Bond Club, and also to House the stellar library of the Observatory, which is estimated to be the greatest collection of photographs of the stars in the world. Although the annex is to be completed in readiness for the opening of college in the fall, no definite date can be set for the completion of the telescope, since it will depend...
...Bond Astronomical Club, of which Shapley is one of the three counsellors, is headed by Professor W. R. Ransom, of Tufts College, and meets periodically at the Harvard Observatory. It was founded for the purpose of bringing amateur study to bear upon the problems of modern stellar science, and consists of prominent professional and amateur scientists. Its rapid growth was one of the leading causes for the recently announced annex to the main section of the University plant, since existing accommodations are proving too small for the frequent meetings of the club...