Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hard on the heels of the Big Board in trying to build up a businessman's counterattack against the Exchange Bill was the New York Curb, second largest exchange in the U. S. Able young President E. Burd Grubb, elected only last week, lost no time in emulating President Whitney's methods. President Michael J. O'Brien of the Chicago Stock Exchange, third largest in the U. S., did the same thing.* To businessmen throughout the land who thought that the proposed legislation was no concern of theirs, lawyers, brokers, bankers and dealers preached the same simple...
...religion, he changed his mind during his first year at Cornell. Thereafter John R. Mott's work was for Christ. He began Y. M. C. A. work as Cornell vice president in 1885. By 1915 he was holding the topnotch job of international general secretary. He helped build the Student Volunteer Movement (for foreign missions), is the only man alive who has attended each & every one of its conferences since the first pre-organization meeting under Dwight Lyman Moody in 1886 at Mt. Hermon, Mass. At Vadstena Castle in Sweden in 1895 he helped organize the World...
Scoffers have said that while the Massachusetts General Court voted a sum of money to be used in the future to build a school, there still wasn't any school...
When Harold G. Moulton of the Brookings Institute, the most impartial and intelligent of the international investigating bodies, published his report, he came to several significant conclusions. In the first place, he pointed out that it would be cheaper to build three double track freight railroads than to develop the St. Lawrence so that ocean vessels could navigate it. He showed that the customary reckoning between railroad rates and canal rates is utterly false, in that the first puts all the costs, including the overhead, on the shipper, whereas the second places only the actual transpiration charge on the shipper...
...reason why Harvard should not try the same policy. Harvard graduates have shown in the past that they are in no way lacking in generosity, and they can probably be counted on to continue to show it. Intensive and successful drives have been recently conducted in order to build chapels and business schools; it is surely not too much to ask that the same thing be done on a minor scale in order to make possible the continued existence of a system that is not only highly meritorious but highly necessary as well...