Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stress, when the world is struggling in a storm that threatens to destroy it, the sons of Fair Harvard charge you to remember, that if our civilization is to survive, one of the bulwarks of its salvation will be our Alma Mater, if by wise guidance she stands a firm oasis for straight thinking, courage, and high ideals. G. R. Agassiz...
...wife and 17 exclusive agencies for little-known wines & liquors. He promptly organized Trans-Europa Corp. One of the founders of Hahn Department Stores, Eugene Greenhut, and Willard Karn, oil-burner salesman famed as a bridgeplayer, started National Distributors for- Distillers, Inc. to market through cigar-stores. A new firm called Stuart, Briton & Co. has Sandy Macnab Scotch whiskey. Scions of the Hotel McAlpin family have Smirnoff vodka and other liqueurs which they will make under patriarchal Vladimir Smirnoff's direction in a factory at Bethel, Conn., hometown of the late great P. T. Barnum...
When the liquor trade ceases to agitate at the present tempo, observers believe that most of the business will settle into the hands of the more venerable importers who maintained their European connections through the dry years. Exclusive agencies usually call for a specified volume, and if the new firms fail to develop markets, they will lose their contracts. Only three newcomers whom the old importers regard as potential competitors are Tillier-Thompson. the distributing subsidiary of Schenley Distillers and R. C. Williams & Co.. an old grocery firm about to handle liquor for the first time. Some old importers...
...city's credit being at dead low ebb, Mayor O'Brien badly needed the bankers' goodwill. Governor Lehman's pressure was gentle but firm. And this interesting item came to light: Among Counsel Samuel Untermyer's realty investments is a second mortgage of $2,050,000 on No. 42 Broadway, recorded in the names of two sons, Alvin and Irwin. No. 42's tenants include such big brokerages as DeCoppet & Doremus, J. S. Bache & Co., Hornblower & Weeks, Logan & Bryan...
Last month Bigelow, vacationing in Minnesota, was drowned when his canoe tipped over. His will, opened last week, left one-third of his $3,000,000 estate outright to Charles Ward. After his funeral directors of the firm met to elect a president to succeed him. They elected Charles Ward...