Word: centralizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Coupled with the fact that car production last week was fast returning to normal after the annual slack season which this year was concentrated chiefly in September,* such figures seemed ample reason for extreme good cheer among automobile-makers. Tending their new creations in Manhattan's vast Grand Central Palace (see p. 67), makers almost unanimously anticipated their best year, pooh-poohed Wall Street talk of a major Depression. But, though this week's show in Manhattan marks completion for manufacturers of the crucial business of launching new models, to an equally important segment of the automobile industry...
Harvard will be well represented at the annual Automobile show which opened yesterday in New York City's Grand Central Palace, by students in the Bureau for Street Traffic Research. Nineteen men now studying traffic problems and their solution will operate the devices for driver-testing in a "driver's clinic" developed by Harry R. DeSilva, lecturer on Motor Vehicle Administration and Driver Control...
...market standby, American Telephone & Telegraph reported that in the fiscal year ending Aug. 31 earnings were up from $165,400,000 to $195,500,000. Operating revenue for 92 Class i railroads in September was $296,700,000 compared to $295,000,000 last year. But New York Central's August net was off from...
...easily. It broke to the lowest lows since 1935, then continued dizzily downward driving Dow-Jones industrial averages some ten points lower to 125. U. .S. Steel led the way, going to a new bottom of $61.50-less than half of the year's high ($126.50). New York Central fell to $17.50, lower even than in 1932 when Delaware & Hudson's shrewd President, Leonor F. Loree, thought it a great bargain and bought his road 495,000 shares in the open market at $22.36. Watching the market ski swiftly on, speculators, whether skiers or not, last week wondered...
...vegetation of west central Texas agrees with the Angora goats who grow the best quality mohair and every bush and tree is nibbled clean as high as goat can reach. A huge fortune from Texas mohair was made by Charles Schreiner, a French immigrant who started as a merchant, turned to banking, prospered as a goat rancher when a 34? a Ib. tariff began keeping out Turkish and South African mohair. At one time he owned a goat ranch twice as large as Rhode Island. At his death a few years ago, Louis Schreiner -known to Texas goat herders...