Word: curbings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early last week U. S. headlines, which for months had been mumbling darkly about the prospect of a distant war, suddenly shrilled a new and alarming note: ETHIOPIA PARLEY COLLAPSES. ITALY BARS ALL PEACE TALK. BRITAIN TO ASK U. S. TO HELP CURB WAR. U. S. Charge d'Affaires Ray Atherton had been closeted with British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare in London. "Friendly but powerful pressure," wrote a New York Times Paris correspondent, "will come from Great Britain, working through diplomatic, political and press channels to win the U. S. to her side in the coming conflict over...
...marriage early this month was at Caxton Hall Registry Office near the Houses of Parliament. A London crowd shuffled, sweltered, fainted, and sang on the curb from 8 a. m. until the ceremony at 2:30 p. m. when the Roy Jazz Band blared as a wedding march its leader's original composition...
...President Matsuoka, brilliant, ruth less, resourceful, has been called "the most Westernized of Japanese leaders and the most dangerous to the West." It was he who haughtily led Japan's delegation out of the League of Nations when Geneva tried to curb his country's invasion of Manchuria (TIME, March...
...stuck through the windshield will cut clean to the bone through vein, artery and muscle like a piece of beef under the butcher's knife. . . ." At the end of the article Reader's Digest announced: Convinced that widespread reading of this article will help curb reckless driving, reprints in leaflet form are offered at cost (2?each), with a special price of $1.50 per hundred...
...deficit in 1933. Common dividends stopped. Business improved the following year and for the fiscal year ending Feb. 28, 1935 the company announced a net profit of $442,000. Last week Sheaffer Pen celebrated Walter Sheaffer's 68th birthday by moving up from the New York Curb Exchange to the New York Stock Exchange, listing 162,355 shares of common stock on which the dividend ($1) was resumed last March. Said portly, affable President Sheaffer: "Business is satisfactory, very satisfactory...