Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Securities & Exchange Commission asking permission to sell 200,000 shares of stock with par value of $1 to the public through J. A. Sisto & Co. Reasons for the issuance are vague expectations of expansion, vague fears that inheritance taxes might be excessive in the event of a Hirschfield death unless the stock has a list value...
Others pointed out that the utility industry had a $3,200,000,000 expansion program, ready to uncork if only the Government would rescind its "death sentence."* Affectionately cheered was white-fringed old Alex Dow, president of Detroit Edison Co., when he pleaded: "To what end is business being guided, anyway? Is investment of their moneys or speculation for profit to be made safe for the stupid and for those overwise in their own conceits- by policing every traveler on that road? Are we to mark the way of the Lord through business laws and ethics according to the specifications...
...Most prominent test case challenging the utility death sentence is that brought by Electric Bond & Share Co. which has refused to register with the SEC as required by the Public Utility Act of 1935. This week E. B. & S. and every other utility holding company was dealt a severe blow when the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision of Federal Judge Julian W. Mack which restrained E. B. & S. from using the mails or other means of interstate commerce unless it signed up with...
...book contains at least one very good passage: the description of the street fight and chase in which Caley receives his death wound. Most readers will agree that Caley in his bedazzled guilelessness, his dumb trustingness, is basically well conceived. It is in the development of the story that things go astray, and it is the author's wavering method of attack that causes the trouble. A love affair that starts hard-boiled ("Aw, come on. Give me a break. . . . We all get pushed around.") goes suddenly opalescent. (". . . A part of me that is still hard and stiff...
...DEATH SAILS WITH MAGELLAN - Charles Ford-Random House...