Word: curbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Olds spoke on "The Making of a College," referring to ideal college trustees as "a spur rather than a curb...
...under his administration no legislation would be directed against the railroads ; the fact that Great Britain put off the corduroys of Socialism for the suave dinner-jacket of a Conservative ministry. These were the occurrences that made small investors fish stuffed stockings from behind stoves and rush to the curb with their coin; that made big investors say to their brokers, "Buy!" between every puff of their long black cigars. Those who outlined these reasons pointed most of all to the first one. Drum-major in the band from whom the swaggering racket swelled, they said, was a skinny...
...dubbed the "dough stocks" emphasized the growing importance of the baking industry generally. The stock market has long been familiar with "cracker" companies like National Biscuit and Loose-Wiles; recently, the "bread companies," like United Kakeries, Ward Baking and General Baking, have attracted attention on the "Big Board" and Curb alike...
...November, 1919, wiped out most of this, and Durant was compelled to sell out his control of the General Motors Corp. to a banking syndicate. But the genius of Chevrolet soon organized his own auto company, and is said to have done well in its shares on the Curb. In 1921-22 he "came back" in Wall Street by making $4 million in Studebaker; he accumulated 80,000 shares at 50 and sold them at or about par. Stockbrokers are now beginning to speak of Durant as "one of the Street's great operators," "a successor to James Keene...
...Professor Henry Pratt Fairchild, of New York University, reiterated his solemn warning to the world against overpopulation, urged an ethical birth-control and a curb upon migration. Rear Admiral William L. Rodgers, U. S. N., took the occasion to predict a clash of yellow and white men in Australia when America and the Orient overflow their Continents, and also pointed a finger of suspicion at Japan for the late Philippine disturbances. Suave Tsurumi avowed Japan's innocence...