Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significance. The chief Democrats' truce offer was smart politics but it was also, conceivably, motivated by sincere concern for the condition of the country. Perhaps by coincidence or perhaps because the public felt reassured, prices on the New York Stock Exchange rose steadily for five consecutive days. As Republicans and Democrats both knew, the prime movers for any legislative gain that may be effected in the December- March session of Congress will be the insurgent Senate Republicans, who really are thought to desire an extra session of the 72nd Congress and who have the following legislative axes to grind...
...other vehicular tunnels are municipal or State projects. Unique, the Detroit &; Canada Tunnel Co. is a private concern. Boosting stock sales last week, its directors announced an investment of $25,000,000, anticipated earnings of some two million dollars a year...
...follow with grave concern and sympathy continuance of heavy unemployment among so many of my people. . . . I propose immediately to set up a commission to inquire into the entire question of unemployment insurance and in particular to allegations of abuse of its provisions...
Carrier Engineering Corp. had its inception in 1915 when Willis Haviland Carrier and Joel Irvine Lyle left Buffalo Forge Co. to start the new concern. Engineer Carrier has remained president of the company, made many a technical contribution, the most important of which was a centrifugal refrigeration system developed in 1922. Like many a brilliant engineer, he works hard, must be reminded to eat and have his hair cut. Sometimes he goes forth to hunt and fish, often returns with mighty plans in his head. Mr. Lyle is executive vice president, treasurer, general manager. His is a good business head...
Armistice Day should mean more than parades and mild rejoicing. The haggling of past years has taught the world that the conflict of 1918 was not necessarily a war to end all wars. An estimate of the past is valuable only in as much as it stimulates concern for the future. The true significance of Armistice day will be felt only when the people will mingle the faded memory of a decade ago with an anixous thought for the years that are to come...