Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although this question has become a community concern, it will never be solved until each driver has learned to drive sanely. During the summer the article, "And Sudden Death" brought home clearly the realities of this situation. In August the Hartford-Times initiated a safety campaign which has spread to over a hundred newspapers. These are the community ways of impressing each individual with his own responsibility...
...Baltimore last week Federal Judge William Caldwell Coleman declared the Public Utility Act of 1935 void "in its entirety" (see p. 61). The immediate consequences of that decision affected utilities and the stock market, but its ultimate effect may well concern Franklin Roosevelt...
Before Automatic Signal had sold a single light, Yaleman Garland decided to give his heretical business theories a thorough workout. At a pen's stroke he wrote up the value of the patent to a flat $1,000,000. Then he transferred the patent to a new concern of his own, granting the original operating company a manufacturing license, carried on their books at $3,250,000. Affiliates, dummies, acceptance companies, holding companies, securities companies began to sprout like weeds. And the patent was given another boost, this time...
That was too heretical for even old Professor Fisher, who is a stanch advocate of the commodity ("rubber") dollar. To please his patron, Yaleman Garland revalued the patent at $5,000,000. Automatic Signal prospered modestly, is still a going concern. Still board chairman is spare, white-goateed Professor Irving Fisher. Yaleman Garland withdrew into the mysteries of his 30 new corporations...
Deaths attributable to football, a source of deep concern to preachers, coaches, and heads of college athletic associations in 1928 and 1931, have aroused no indignation this year. By last week 19 football deaths had been announced. One Robert Mansfield, playing on an Oakland, Calif, sandlot, died when he ran head first into a telegraph pole. Andrew Crespino of New Orleans died of a heart attack during practice when he leaned over to tie his shoe...