Word: curbings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...busses that used to come thundering down at you when you were trying to cross the street and stop right in your way, now have to creep along the curb and discharge passengers in front of Straus Hall or the Harvard Trust Company, depending on the direction they are going. Cars may no longer park in either of these places. Parking in front of Straus and Massachusetts Hall will be diagonal...
...hands agreed to drop reorganization proceedings. On its part, the Fish management attributed this change of heart to improvement in rural business conditions. Everybody seemed pleased. Next day, W. N. U.'s bonds, with $8 back interest accruing, shot up 20 points on the New York Curb Exchange...
...pass every Saturday in autumn on their way to football games at Boston or New Haven. Kay Brannan watches them and sighs. Her family bores her. She yearns for more expensive things. One Saturday evening a handsome Boston socialite, young Dr. Bob Dakin* (Robert Taylor), sweeps up to the curb in his icecream roadster, takes her for a ride, gives her some champagne. Next morning, he emerges from an alcoholic haze to learn that he has married...
...floor of the Exchange bring trading to a halt for the formal announcement that Partner Meighan had been suspended for three years for "conduct or proceeding inconsistent with just and equitable principles of trade in that his firm . . . had engaged in reckless and unbusinesslike dealing. . . ." Later the New York Curb Exchange suspended McCaffrey's Curb members...
Partner Meighan had to take the rap because he was the only partner who was an Exchange member. Summing up the case, the New York Times declared: "Wall Street observers felt . . . that neither the New York Stock Exchange nor the Curb Exchange had added to their prestige by their handling of the case of Walter P. McCaffray...