Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tendency to separate students into groups, has made the Council the unifying factor in the undergraduate life. While the majority of members are elected, the constitution of the Council makes sure that there are enough appointed positions to insure complete representation of all groups. Almost all questions which concern undergraduate life as a whole come to the attention of the Council. In general these questions are educational or athletic, but the Council is also in charge of all class elections, all appointments of committees and routine duties. It issues reports on all question which seem significant from the undergraduate point...
American Export Lines is a sturdy little concern whose sturdy little boats (none bigger than 9,350 tons) carry about a third of the freight (not including grain) between the U. S. and the Mediterranean. This is the second richest trade route in the North Atlantic, and American Export has no U. S. competitors for it. Hence it is in a better position than many other U. S. lines, made $643.000 last year with the aid of a Government subsidy of $1,479,000. Said Lawyer Kenneth Gardner who pleaded for the new airline before the House Post Office Committee...
...only be estimated. . . . I do not think basic soundness of our markets has been impaired by restrictions for the protection of customers and lessening of the speculative tinge. It may be-who can tell?-that there will be sharper short-term deviations-fluctuations that concern the speculator rather than the investor-but I think the danger of runaway markets and also of dangerously inflated markets has been greatly decreased. Present markets tend to make investors think very much less in terms of capital appreciation than in terms of earnings, soundness of organization and good management...
...annual report: "I am fearful that, in an effort to cure what might be termed sporadic evils, undue restraints are being placed upon normal, proper action, thus creating abnormal market conditions. Evidence accumulates that the quality of the market has been seriously affected. With muc concern I note the continuance of narrow, illiquid markets in which wide spreads between bid and asked quotations prevail and in which comparatively small volumes of buying or selling create undue fluctuations in prices. Almost daily, situations are called to my attention wherein it is impossible to buy or sell reasonable amounts of stock...
Last year's apple crop was worth $108,000,000. The value of this year's big crop will depend largely on the export market. Hence that was the chief concern of Chicago's great apple meeting. As recently as 1930, 21,000,000 bu. of U. S. apples were exported, mostly to England. Later such tremendous trade barriers rose that exports fell to 6,000,000 last season. Last week Secretary of State Cordell Hull sent a message outlining the 16 reciprocal trade treaties which concern apples. A blow to lope however was delivered by Fruit...