Word: curbings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worst fog England has seen for years, blanketing not only London but an area of 8,000 square miles. (Total area of England 50,327 sq. mi.; Scotland 30,405; Wales 8,016.) Two steps off the curb pedestrians were completely lost. Conductors carrying great sizzling gasoline flares stalked like old-time linkboys ahead of their buses. Many a scarlet omnibus caught fire from the heat of repeatedly jammed brakes. A pair of wild ducks, lost and dizzy, dropped quacking disconsolately in the middle of the Strand. Rail traffic was paralyzed. A Wimbledon train sat on a siding for hours...
Salaries. The Federal Trade Commission last week began sending out questionnaires to all companies whose capital or assets exceed $1,000,000 and whose shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange or New York Curb. The questionnaires require information on all salaries and compensation paid to officers and directors during the last five years. Already the Government has this information on personal income tax returns. Evident purpose of the Trade Commission's inquiry, authorized by resolution at the special session of Congress, is to make salaries of all important executives public, perhaps lead to regulation of salaries...
...schemes cooked up by bumbling Mayor O'Brien and his adviser, Samuel Untermyer, threatened Manhattan with a major economic calamity. To escape the Mayor's new 4?-a-share stock transfer tax and 5% levy on brokers' gross income, not only the Stock Exchange but the Curb and Produce Exchanges, the over-the-counter dealers and all appendages of Manhattan's vast securities business were ready to join the Jersey hegira. For Mayor O'Brien had inadvertently brought home a great truth to the men who buy & sell the nation's securities: that whether...
...divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report."' Passionately fond of a good story, he demanded that his reporters write interestingly. Life to him was no mere procession of elections, legislatures, murders. It was "a new kind of apple, a crying child on the curb, the exact weight of a candidate for President, the latest style in whiskers, the idiosyncrasies of the City Hall clock, a new football coach at Yale, a vendetta in Mulberry Bend...
Fortune Peter Ryan, 23, son of Allan A. Ryan who in 1920 cornered Stutz Motors stock, and grandson of the late famed Thomas Fortune Ryan, financier, bought a seat on the New York Curb Exchange...