Word: called
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...union's plans for enlargement and improvement are to be carried out by several strikes in the near future. A subsidiary in Toronto is authorized to call a strike of 1,800 cloak-makers. Another subsidiary consisting of 7,000 embroiderers in Manhattan is also directed to undertake a strike. Strikes are now under consideration in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Toronto, Baltimore, Toledo, Kansas City. But the specific purpose of the bond issue is to finance a strike of 45,000 dressmakers to be called in New York...
...Bank of England, in his quiet sanctum, Montagu Collet Norman sat one morning last week, and probably he stroked in anxious meditation his courtly Vandyke beard. Invisibly the battle of gold was on. It was a question whether to call out the ordinary reserves?whether to raise the rediscount rate of the Bank of England...
What the "peculiar conditions" were he did not say. But they obviously included the English situation, easier credit needed for moving the fall crop. Stock Market excesses, high call money rates. For Governor Young to have been explicit would have been untraditional. Because it is impossible to make a complete statement taking into consideration every factor discussed, the Federal Reserve Board makes no explanations, merely presents the simple fact of its decisions...
...miles. Not many people in Lawrenceville have frequent occasion to telephone to Buenos Aires, though Thornton Niven Wilder, who teaches school there, might have liked to telephone Peru while writing The Bridge of San Luis Key. Nevertheless, the telephone operators of Lawrenceville may expect many a call for Buenos Aires to go through before long. Arrangements were made last week for International Telephone & Telegraph Co. to hook its telephone-subscribers to its short wave radio station at Buenos Aires and for American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to hook U. S. telephone-users to its short wave stations at Lawrenceville...
When the first call goes through, the event will mark not only a noteworthy technical achievement. It will be even more likely to nourish financial hopes among holders of telephone company stocks. All summer long A. T. & T. stock, usually conservative in its behavior, has been booming along in the stock market at prices up to 292, which is 23 times earnings. The hopefulness of the speculators has not been based on expected revenue from telephone conversations with Buenos Aires. The point is that A. T. & T. is in a position to take the lead in any major telephone merger...