Word: curbings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short months all that has changed. By last week, Canadian Colonial was honking along in full-feathered flight. On the New York Curb Exchange, its stock (which early last year could have been bought at 50^) sold last week for $5.25. For the first time in its history the slow-growing goose began to grow feathers for stockholders' pillows: a profit of $3,000 in March, $2,600 in April...
...detailed twenty-sevens page import to the Faculty, the Committee on the uses of English, headed by J. D. M. Ford, Smith Professor of French and Spanish, urges greater effort on the part of instructors to curb the use of poor English on examinations which the Committee feels in very prevalent...
...Freedom-cherishing Englishmen once feared that the presence of the Sovereign might overawe the House of Commons, cause it to curb its opinions...
...Government with 16% of its annual postage revenue. Practically every big U. S. company has either rented or bought a Pitney-Bowes machine to speed up its mailing. Pitney-Bowes profits meanwhile have risen to $614,791 in 1937, $586,416 last year. Its stock, traded on the Curb, was only at $7.25 last week, but Founder Bowes has enough so that the annual 50?-per-share dividend enables him to indulge another expensive hobby besides yachting-a stud farm in Virginia...
Ever since roly-poly Howard Hopson was caught lobbying against the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, nothing so delights official Washington as seeing his vast Associated Gas & Electric Co. caught off-base. SEC is trying to delist A. G. & E. stock from the New York Curb Exchange because of alleged "false and misleading" statements in its prospectus. Last week its investigation turned up a choice tidbit which SEC promptly speared...