Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month. Its total cost, with heat, light and plumbing installed: $3,500. It is a product of American Homes, Inc. of New York which now offers a "line" of four prefabricated models costing up to $7,200. Architect is lean, towering Robert W. McLaughlin Jr. of the New York firm of Holden, McLaughlin & Associates. Designer of swank country homes for the well-to-do, Architect McLaughlin has turned enthusiastically to prefabrication as a solution not only of the U. S. housing problem but of the U. S. architect's employment problem...
...entered the firm of Harriman & Co., founded by his brother and father, and he also became president of the Night & Day Bank (open ail night). E. H. Harriman was one of the directors and a large stockholder. After his death the $100,000,000 estate of the great Widow Harriman bought more of the bank's stock. In 1911 the Night & Day became the Harriman National with Joe Harriman still as president. No scandal adhered to Joe Harriman's banking career unless it was that in 1923 the Harriman National, to Wall Street's horror, lent...
...imprisoned Englishmen in question are all employees of the Metropolitan-Vickers Company, a British firm doing some work for the Communist government. They have been accused of deliberately attempting to wreck the power system. Two other Britons from the same company were also arrested, but later released; one of them, Alan Monkhouse, reported that the wicked OGPU had treated him with extreme courtesy and intelligence. From their purely disinterested position the British authorities have decided, and have informed the Soviets, that the case against the remaining four is inadequate and should be dismissed at once. Russia, on the other hand...
...Diamond Horseshoe. Contributions of $10,000, biggest individual ones so far, came from Pierre du Pont and Louis Eckstein who still hopes to be able to give his own opera this summer at Chicago's Ravinia Park. The Metropolitan received unexpected revenue lately when a jigsaw puzzle firm paid for the privilege of using photographs of famed singers, scenes from the opera...
...corporation or partnership should be allowed to take deposits unless subjected to the same regulations and required to make the same financial statements as commercial banks. No corporation or partnership dealing in securities should be permitted to take deposits. No officer, or director, or any member of such a firm should be allowed to be an officer or director of a bank. Bank directorates should be small enough so that their members should actually know and be responsible for what goes on in banks...