Word: curbings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fidelio Brewery stock is listed on the New York Curb as its sponsors wish, it will be the fourth brewery stock to be traded in publicly. Two of the others are on the Pittsburgh Stock Exchange. They are Independent Brewing Co., with a 1,000,000-bbl. capacity, and Pittsburgh Brewing Co. with 1,500,000-bbl. capacity and a sideline in ice-cream, dairy products and a cold storage plant. The third is Cleveland-Sandusky Co., listed on the Cleveland Stock Exchange...
...nasty as the Bonus march has been seen since 1916 when organized labor forced through the eight-hour-day railroad law under threat of strike. Not since 1783 has an army of citizens marched on the Capitol with evil in their hearts. . . . Something must be done to curb this movement. Otherwise it will spread and I don't know what may happen...
...biggest taxi fleet (2,300 cars). Broker Sisto met the Mayor at Atlantic City in the summer of 1929. The following autumn he sent his gift, made "in admiration," around to the City Hall. Later he spoke to the Mayor of the need of municipal taxi regulation to curb low-rate "taxicab racketeers." The next April Mayor Walker ordered an investigation, the next year pushed through legislation creating a Board of Taxicab Control...
...Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney told the New York Bond Club two months ago, is one which the police are particularly anxious to stamp out. His speech did not fall on entirely deaf ears. Last week one New Yorker with the courage of his indiscretions, Henry C. Murphy of the Curb Exchange, appeared before the Prohibition Administrator with the information that he had been detained in a Manhattan West Side saloon for 48 hours, liquored, doped, threatened, made to sign $2,000 worth of checks. Three Prohibition agents accompanied Broker Murphy to the place, arrested three startled men and two women...
...statement is as follows: "The decision to curb the use of the so-called 'sympathy appeal' was based upon a survey of summer selling jobs, recently completed by a committee appointed in October, 1931, by the Eastern College Personnel Officers Association. All students placed with sales companies through the employment bureaus of thirty eastern colleges during the summer of 1931 were asked to give a detailed report of the amounts which they earned, the length of time they worked, the number of working hours required per week, and the degree of supervision they received. They were also requested to give...