Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Schwab, chairman of the Bethlehem Steel Corp.; John D. Rockefeller Jr.; and Richard B. Mellon, a director of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. They contrasted sharply ?"Charlie" Schwab, with his theatrical rags-to-riches air; the grave, earnest heir of John D. Rockefeller, with his air of Christian concern over a social evil; and Banker Mellon, cautious, acquainted with politicians, suspicious of the Committee's motives, uncommunicative, unsympathetic...
...pointed out that in 1927 the three newspapers earned $121,978 or 3.38 times the annual interest requirement of the new bond issue. A ratio of 3.38 between earnings and interest charges would once have been thought barely adequate to induce people to loan money to a manufacturing concern which had great brick & mortar assets. That such a ratio was deemed sufficient to get money for newspapers indicated that bankers now rate the pen as no less mighty than the brick...
Threatened with this immediate possibility and with damage suits impending from her producers, Miss Eagels gave no indications of alarm or even of concern. She stayed in Manhattan at the smart Hotel Elysee and paid a day's visit to the country place which belongs to her husband, Edward Harris ("Ted") Coy, one-time Yale football back...
...experiment of concern to the outside world is being conducted by Doctors I. J. Henderson and D. B. Hill of the Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health respectively. The research is concerned with the efficiency of the human machine under varying conditions...
Sherwood Anderson, author of Dark Laughter, collects news from Coon Hollow, Spratts Creek, Troutdale, Marion and many another Virginian village, prints it in two weekly newssheets. When he bought the Smyth County News and the Marion Democrat (combined circulation, 5,000) he explained to whom it might concern: 'I am doing it primarily to make a living. My books have never sold." Last week Editor & Publisher Anderson confided to readers of the Democrat: "The trouble with us is that we have to write the whole paper, and make our living nights. You can't make money and have...