Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Events of past week have given a confusing political color to the problem of the war debts. Most immediately the American government's concern in whether to grant or deny another moratorium on the payments due December 15. A denial may send sterling to a new low and further injure world trade. In justice to Great Britain, and to be on the safe side of our own interests, a moratorium would be desirable. In any case, the most important decisions lie beyond the ideas of March and outside the sphere of the single forthcoming payment...
Finances will be the new administration's first concern. Mr. Roosevelt will make an honest effort to balance the still unbalanced budget. A 25% reduction in Government expenses?about $1,000,000,000 is definitely promised but no time limit is set. Thus if 6% is cut from each successive annual budget the Democratic President will be able to claim at the end of his term a fulfillment of this platform pledge. Despite the National Economy League's clamor. President Roosevelt will not lead a movement against the $400,000,000 Allowance to veterans for miscellaneous illnesses which have...
Last week the following were news: Frederick Henry Bedford Jr. was elected president of Standard Alcohol Co., a new concern formed to handle Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey's manufacture of alcohol from petroleum. This branch of Standard's business was previously the subject of litigation with Petroleum Chemical Corp., owned by National Distillers and Barnsdall Corp- Now Petroleum Chemical Corp. will have a large stock interest in Standard Alcohol, settling the suits. Mr. Bedford is a director of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey). His father was vice president of the company in charge of its lubrication...
...North German Lloyd-Hamburg-American combination, U. S. Lines and to a lesser extent from Il Duce's Italia Line. Though Tsar Emil Lederer of the Transatlantic Passenger Conference keeps fares equalized for all, the fight for traffic is hot, the profits nil. Only big British shipping concern to escape the woes of the North Atlantic dogfight is the late great Lord Inchcape's mighty Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co. World's largest steamship company, P. & O. operates almost two million tons of shipping, chiefly over the Empire route to India, the Far East and Australasia...
...Carnegie Foundation's recent report on college admissions presents a solution to the problem which, while it is new, is very much experimental. Taking the stand that "the swollen and unwholesome concern with mere admission to college" is greatly over-emphasized, the Foundation objects to both certification and admission by examination as criterions of a student's eligibility to enter college. Instead, the report recommends "a true chart and record of the pupil's activities" to show his fitness for further study, and to give an indication of the most suitable field for him. In addition tests are suggested...