Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Canal boosters, mostly from North Florida, pooh-poohed these figures. The City of Jacksonville hired a local firm of engineers named Hills & Youngberg to make another survey for a fee reported to be $30,000. Hills & Youngberg, as expected, brought in a report steaming with encouragement: such a canal was quite practical; it would cost only $100,000,000; it would easily pay for itself in practically no time at all; it would cut 400 treacherous sea miles from the distance between North-Atlantic ports and Gulf of Mexico ports...
...chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., which is about as much and about as little a munitions firm as E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.. closed the week by asserting: "We should not be regarded as a munitions firm at all! Our sales of military products during the past five years amounted to only 1.8% of the total business of Imperial Chemicals...
...Sarraut to ask that his entourage of French detectives be called off. Since the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia occurred when M. Sarraut was Minister of the Interior and his careless Cabinet was largely blamed (TIME, Oct. 15, 1934 el seq.), M. Sarraut last week made an exceedingly firm reply to King Carol...
Cass Gilbert Jr. will probably have to find a new partner to assist him. Onetime partner in the firm of Cass Gilbert Inc. was John R. Rockart. In New York's Supreme Court last week he brought suit, claiming that during Cass Gilbert's lifetime he had an arrangement guaranteeing him "more than one-eighth" of the gross architectural commissions on which he worked. Since Architect Gilbert's death in May, 1934, John Rockart insists that he was in complete charge of the Supreme Court Building operations, hence deserves one-fourth of the profits on the building...
Last week Wisconsin's Supreme Court ruled that anyone may name a cigar after the President, use his picture on the box. Reversing a lower court ruling by which a Milwaukee manufacturer had been enjoined from producing a "Franklin D. Roosevelt" cigar because another firm had got one on the market ahead of him, Chief Justice Marvin B. Rosenberry declared: "The fact that it is in poor taste and shocks our sense of propriety . . . does not make it illegal or unlawful...