Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accept $26,000 in bonds as "profits of an ordinary, lawful business transaction" from a brokerage firm interested in taxicabs, but he did not sponsor the kind of municipal legislation they sought...
Polite but firm were Presidents Harry Arnold and Henry M. Clarke of the New-York and New Jersey Sandy Hook Pilots Associations as they proceeded, one day last week, on a round of personal calls upon the operating managers of all steamship lines in New York Harbor. Fun was fun. said they, but pilots were pilots. They were really tired now of bringing back from Sandy Hook those convivial or sentimental pier visitors who "forget" to leave the ship before she pulls out. or who devilishly say. "Let's stay aboard and get off with the pilot." Hereafter, said...
Beaverbrook Blocked. The difficulties of Price Bros. & Co., Ltd., Canada's old newsprint firm, seemed ended when Lord Beaverbrook had a new directorate elected, his brother AllarrAnderson Aitken made president, and then suggested a plan of reorganization (TIME, June 13). Last week Lord Beaverbrook abruptly announced that his plan had not been acceptable to "several security holders and some of the creditors," had therefore been withdrawn. Chief features of the plan were to postpone sinking fund payments for five years, stop preferred dividends for five years, pay off creditors with income debentures (interest dependent upon earnings...
...like skin from dried fish. The skin is used largely for glue (in Gloucester is Le Page's odoriferous factory) and tearing it from the fish is a delicate job. At 22 Tom Carroll was made foreman of this department and, seven years later, a member of the firm. He distinguished himself by his handling of labor problems, especially in the general strike of 1902 (Gloucester's first) and the 1918 strike of the fishermen against their captains...
...years old, a Swiss architect. He and his future patroness met while they were studying at Dr. Jung's clinic of psychology in Zurich in 1913. He was with Mrs. McCormick when she returned to the U. S. in 1921. That year he formed the real estate firm of Krenn & Dato, in which Mrs. McCormick is thought to have invested $13,000,000. Although at one time it employed hundreds of salesmen, to whom Mrs. McCormick on occasion gave "pep talks," it has not been strikingly successful...