Word: carriere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about two years, the future of the St. Paul R. R. has provided a ready subject for debate and conjecture at Wall Street luncheon tables. Most people thought the great Northwestern carrier would escape a receivership, although by a narrow margin. To many, therefore, the receivership (TIME, Mar. 30) came as a surprise...
...adolescence, he astonished the citizenry by setting a derailed horsecar back on its tracks. Yet his parents, until that day, had been sceptical of his abilities. "There's men in old Ireland could break you in two with a slap of their hand," his father, a wizened hod-carrier, had told him. His mother had intended him for the priesthood...
...press, freedom from petty governmental aggression. On the eve of the celebration of that event the bureaucracies of Boston and Cambridge swoop down upon the newsstands and with a grand gesture of patriotic and ethical zeal, carry off every available copy of the Lampoon, as if it were a carrier of pestilence and destruction. Nothing could be more ludicrous, more utterly absurd if it were not so crass and insolent a demonstration of petty tyranny...
...world's biggest and fastest airplane-carrier will slide off the ways of the N. Y. Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden, N. J., and will be christened U. S. S. Saratoga...
...Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and the National City Bank. Whether the road is due for a receivership this spring is unknown in financial circles. But the drastic decline in St. Paul stocks and junior bonds indicates Wall Street's opinion that all is not well with the great northwest carrier...