Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...state of New York is attempting to curb fake spiritualism by prohibiting the advertising of fortune tellers, clairvoyants, and mediums," continued Mr. Dunworth. "Now they hang out a shingle with the inscription 'Church of Truth', or 'Lotus Temple' and make twice as much money...
...Manhattan, an empty touring car lounged against a Broadway curb. A man stepped on the running-board but did not approach the controls. Pedestrians gaped to hear the chauffeurless machine start its motor, shift into gear, lurch away from the curb into thick traffic. Down Broadway it went, looping uncertainly back and forth across the street. It missed a cowering milkwagon, blew its horn, dodged a speeding fire-engine. Motorcycle police escorted the vagrant down Fifth Avenue, where a particularly wild lurch brought the man on the running-board to the steering wheel, not in time, however, to avoid...
...Francisco last week, a dusty Wills Sainte Clair automobile stopped beside a curb. Out leaped one L. B. Miller, who had left Manhattan 102 hr. 45 min. (less than 4½ days) before. Motorist Miller asserted that this time lowered the previous record by more than 7 hours...
...obtained $10,000,000 through a 6½% twenty-five year bond issue, floated by a New York banking syndicate headed by Blair & Co. Principal and interest are payable in New York City in U. S. gold coin. The issue in regular course was listed on the New York Curb Market...
...Zimmerman of Zimmerman & Forshay, who is Chairman of the American Association of Holders of German Mark Securities, at once wrote a letter of protest to the Curb Association about the matter. He and his fellow members of the A. A. H. G. M. S. have by no means forgotten their mark securities, fallen to worthlessness almost by the recent devaluation of the War mark. Mr. Zimmerman declares that this devaluation has amounted to repudiation, that in effect Cologne and other German cities are in default on their mark bonds, and that therefore no German city should be permitted...