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...solemnly voted their corporation out of business. The trust was no down-at-the-heel affair with a sorry or unsavory history. It was Mayflower Association, Inc. with assets of some $19000,000 and one of the best records in the field. Its stock was launched on the full crest of the 1929 boom at $60 per share. Its liquidating value today is more than $77, after past distributions of some $27 in cash and stock...
Riding the crest of a wave of photographic fervor that carried with it the formation of the Harvard Film Society to present epoch-making pictures, Widener Memorial Library yesterday received from Adolph Zukor, of Paramount fame, a gift of 500 prints from motion pictures he has made...
...strikes the eye is the small but substantial profit that marks the year's operations. Although the few thousand dollars in black ink do not make much of a showing in comparison with the lush days of 1931 and 1932, when Harvard's football team was last riding the crest of success, nevertheless even the small surplus is an encouraging climb from the several gloomy years just past...
Premier Blum on his Cabinet's front bench grew visibly more and more nervous as the proletariat-pampering section of the bill was belabored by M. Paul Reynaud, long the chief advocate in France of devaluation and last week riding the crest of acclaim. Deputies and Senators who used to scoff at his ideas showed strong inclination to regard him as an expert pilot in the difficult monetary channel France must now navigate. Deputy Reynaud dismissed as of minimum importance the stabilization agreement Finance Minister Vincent Auriol had verbally obtained from U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau...
Last spring 7,000 gloomy Amoskeag mill hands filed into the Manchester Armory, voted by a slim majority to accept $9.60 a week if the plant would reopen. Few days later the flood crest of the Merrimack River wiped out $2,500,000 worth of Amoskeag property, ruined all hopes of putting the plant in operation. Editorialized the Boston Herald last week: "If there is any satisfaction for the unemployed in knowing that they stuck to the ship to the last, these Amoskeag workers have...