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...Beane, and Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co. They have a tight grip on the board. But Harris felt they were less interested in long-range plans than in the quick resumption of dividend payments that would increase the market value of their common stock. To the board's distress, the stock sank lower under Harris, from 14½ in January 1953 to a year later, though net operating income rose 81% during 1953, from...
...Vote, vote, vote!" cried impatient Senators as New York's Democratic Senator Herbert Lehman, wringing his hands, reproached Knowland for his stand. Twice, in his distress, Lehman wandered down the center aisle. Twice, flushed and angry, he was sent scooting back to his desk on points of order (Senate rules require speakers to remain by their desks). Muttered Lehman: "I shall be delighted to stand by my desk if that is the only argument that can be raised." Shouted other Senators: "Vote, vote, vote...
...serious rise in economic distress in the coming months is almost certain to give the Democrats control of Congress, Joseph C. Palamountain, assistant professor of Government, told the forum...
...last week, the calculating machines in the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics clanked out a figure that looked big and black: between mid-December and mid-January, nonfarm employment dropped by two million jobs. Examining the statistics from individual cities, the Labor Department promptly listed Detroit and Toledo as "distress" areas, i.e., entitled to special consideration in the placing of Government contracts. Across the U.S., politicians, journalists, labor leaders, economists and businessmen were arguing a pressing question: Just how bad is unemployment...
...inexperience immediately became apparent. In descending the mountain for help he passed by no less than three emergency telephones, two first aid caches containing blankets and chemical heat pads, and the Tuckerman Ravine ski Shelter which, although unoccupied at the present time, is available for climbers in distress. The final irony of fate is that he dies just a few yards beyond the Spur Cabin of the Harvard Mountaineering Club where people were staying at that time...