Word: curbings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's retiring President Lowell tried to curb young John Haven Emerson last year. "Stop making respirators," said President Lowell in effect. "I will like hell!" roared young Emerson, long, lean son of long, lean Public Health Man Dr. Haven Emerson of Manhattan, and strode out of the presidential mansion. He loaded a respirator on the rear end of his rebuilt Buick, and with his wife went peddling respirators in competition with Harvard's long, lean Professor Philip Drinker. Professor Drinker, through Warren E. Collins Inc., the cautious Boston manufacturers to whom he assigned patents on the respirator...
...days to amuse them. His doings are always front-page news for Toledo's Press. When King Albert of the Belgians visited Toledo, Mr. Willys provided shining Willys-Knights for the parade. A reporter in an Oldsmobile tried to join the procession, was run to the curb by a policeman before he reached the newsreel photographers...
...Cortelyou of Consolidated Gas Co., N. E. L. A.'s old president. Several other officers of the N. E. L. A., shortly to be junked, were retained by the new association. But the new group had something beside a new name. A set of sharp-toothed regulations to curb unethical practices was enacted such as would never have been dreamed of in the days of Insullism. Four-point code...
...shares daily. Wall Street's lights for the first time in many a month burned far into the night. Reflecting the swollen volume, a boomlet developed in Exchange seats. A Big Board seat sold for $120.000 against a low last May of $62,000. Curb memberships jumped from $16,500 to $28.500. "How late is the tape?" rang familiarly around board rooms. On the two biggest days the U. S. Treasury gained nearly $235,000 in transfer taxes. Total value.of all stock listed on the New York Stock Exchange was boosted $10,000,000,000.00. Entering this week...
...William H. Long of Somerville, N. J. sat in their home, contem plating the rock garden which had won a silver medal in a garden contest last year, and which they hoped would win a gold medal this year. Suddenly an automobile bounded from the road, crossed the curb, plunged into the garden, ripped through vines and hedges, plowed up flower beds, gouged an eight-foot gash in the side of the house, tore away the ivy that had been trained up the wall since 1914, uprooted a four-ton stepping stone, piled up against a maple tree...