Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were scuttling about Washington prodding the State Department to protest. Last week some Washington observers thought the State Department might use the Barletta incident to demonstrate President Roosevelt's "good neighbor" concept of the 112-year-old Monroe Doctrine - i.e., might not only refuse all requests to crack down on Trujillo but permit Mussolini to crack down himself, if he can. Thus, in the eyes of Latin America, the U. S. would be blameless, Musso lini the goat...
...recess was declared. Same day Manhattan newspapers carried display advertising of a "new, faster Sky Chief," pictures of another TWAirliner which last week flew from Los Angeles to New York non-stop in 11 hr. 5 min., broke the transcontinental transport record by half an hour. First Douglas to crack up in the U. S., Sky Chief's misfortune seemed clearly due to weather, not construction...
...first time in a decade. To increase it still further,. Pennsylvania last week cut Broadway Limited's New York-Chicago time to 17 hr. (a reduction of 45 min.), lowered the extra fare from $10 to $7.50. Simultaneously New York Central did the same with its crack 33-year-old Twentieth Century Limited...
...Salle Street the crack-up of Manny Rosenbaum was not altogether unexpected last week. After inheriting the firm from his father about 20 years ago, Trader Rosenbaum began an ambitious program of expansion, considered himself something of an Insull in the grain business. Besides loading himself up with grain elevators, he opened a string of 15 branch offices. Lately he was reported slapping quantities of cash into Polish rye, Argentine corn and oats. Sincerely disliked by many a grain broker for his personality and methods, Manny Rosenbaum was a central figure in the Armour grain scandal...
...President Sydney George McAllister got his Harvester start in the traditional Harvester way- as an office boy. Climbing slowly to an executive job in Harvester's European division, he spent 17 years in Brussels, was called home in 1931. Cool, steady, suspicious of the Press like all crack Harvester officials, he lives quietly with his wife and son in Highland Park outside Chicago, seldom entertains...