Word: busiest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hong Kong harbor, seventh busiest in the world, is always alive with yachts, junks, ferries, sampans, freighters, liners, men-of-war. Last week it was more than usually jampacked with shipping taking refuge from Shanghai's war 1,000 miles to the north. Suddenly in from the China Sea blasted the worst typhoon in ten years. So furious was the wind that observatory instruments, capable of registering up to 125 m.p.h., broke down...
...were San Francisco financial circles over the well-authenticated report that potent Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini had testily refused to list a new issue of Transamerica Corp. stock on the San Francisco Exchange until benign President Frank Shaughnessy resigned (TIME, Aug. 16). Since Transamerica for years had been the busiest stock on the San Francisco Exchange, this gave brokers, already scratching for commissions, a real matter for worry. The squabble grew out of old "A. P.'s" decision to turn Transamerica, once the world's largest bank holding company, into an investment trust. One move of this program...
...might be getting to be too much of a hero, kicked him upstairs to the difficult post of Governor ot Kwangtung and gave this rich job to O. K. Yui, a toothy highly-Americanized graduate of St. John's University, Shanghai who had been Secretary General and busiest executive of Shanghai since...
While Congress was having its busiest days of the year last week, the U. S. State Department was doing almost as well. By week's end, Secretary of State Cordell Hull had: 1) announced an important trade pact with Soviet Russia. 2) proposed a U-Sail-It warship renting service for South American republics...
...call in the plants of three other big independents: Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, and Inland. Promptly 27 steel plants, most of them in Ohio and Illinois, were shut down, some 75,000 men quit work, and 15% of the Steel industry shut up shop in the midst of its busiest season in years, an ideal strike season from Labor's viewpoint...