Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since Mr. Norman is known to have viewed the cotton crisis with utmost concern, he doubtless asked and received details of Mr. MacDonald's morning's work of mediation. The real subject of the Norman-MacDonald-Lamont conference, however, was the reparations situation at The Hague where fiery Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden seemed intent on bending or breaking the Young Plan. In making up his mind whether to back Battler Snowden to the limit the Prime Minister must know the attitude of the fiscal powers in Manhattan and London. None could inform him better than Tycoons...
Last week, with the principal Rumanian harvests barely five weeks off, sealed bids were received at Bucharest from leading European locomotive works. Only one concern-a German syndicate-took seriously the Prime Minister's ultrashort time limit. They would supply him with 100 husky harvest-pullers-if Rumania would pay something like twice the normal price. All the other bidders seemed to assume that what Farm Reliever Maniu really wanted was a low price on 100 locomotives for delivery by Christmas or perhaps next Spring...
Strong is Southern Pacific's position and large its earnings, yet in its position is one bearish item. Like other western roads, the Southern Pacific has watched with growing concern the increase of traffic through the Panama Canal. When transcontinental railroads were first built the driving of a golden spike was the final ceremonial of their completion. But the real gold spike was Cape Horn. Freighters could not compete with freight trains as long as freighters had to wallow around the Horn. But the opening of the Panama Canal furnished a short water route from U. S. coast-to-coast...
...Signed by the Chicago Employers' Association, it was a protest against the bombing of industrial establishments, particularly printing shops, by racketeers. Copy punch was provided by the offer of a $5,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of persons bombing or damaging property of any printing concern that belonged to the Association and $1,000 reward for conviction of persons assaulting workers of print shops where strikes are in progress. The sales curve that the advertising is designed to revise downward is the yearly chart of Chicago bombings which have risen to 67 this year, compared...
Countered the Association Journal last week: "Smoking ... by women has no apparent influence over the functions of the genital system. . . . There is no mention [in expert research on the subject ] of tobacco heart in newborn children. . . . The morality of smoking by women is not a medical concern any more than the question as to whether or not they should go bareheaded into church...