Word: craning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Zinc. A zinc as well as a lead miner is President Crane, St. Joe's zinc output last year being 26,000 tons. Biggest U. S. independent zinc producer is New Jersey Zinc Co., a conservative old concern which publishes few figures, always makes money, has paid dividends without interruption since the Century's turn and actually has its principal mines in New Jersey. Output of the New Jersey mines at present is probably close to 100,000 tons annually. Zinc is also produced by copper miners, partly for the use of brass-making affiliates. In boom times...
What the Court of Appeals had to do was to get in step with the U. S. Supreme Court by explaining its Doubleday, Doran-Macy decision. Wrote Chief Justice Frederick E. Crane: "[When] the publisher sought ... to compel Macy to sell the books at the price it had fixed with another Doubleday corporation . . . we thought this to be a clear case of unauthorized restriction upon the disposition of one's own property and unconstitutional within former decisions of the United States Supreme Court. That court has [now] taken a different view ... so we feel it to be our duty...
...fortunate in not possessing a 'tutor's table.' In consequence the dining hall is always fertile territory for the development of faculty-student friendships. Beginning with Seymour Harris, the Senior Tutor, through Gale Noyes, Crane Brinton, Paul Doolin, and on down to John "Jack the Ripper" Rackliffe, the staff of resident Tutors combines with a staff of thirteen nonresident Tutors to assure the man in any field of concentration instruction within the House...
...confused with Chicago's big Crane Co. is prosperous little Trane Co. of La Crosse, Wis. Both sell comfort to the U. S. public, but there the parallel ends. Crane last week reported 1936 profits of $5,600,000 on sales of $78,000,000. Trane was proud to show earnings of $325,000 last year because it topped its previous record (1930) by more than 50%. And that profit was made on sales of only...
Elliott Roosevelt (second son), struck oil (500 bbl. a day) on the Ed Hughes ranch in Crane County, Tex. which he leased with Elder Brother James, John Daniel Hertz of Yellow Cab Co., Poloist Tommy Hitchcock...