Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have exactly the same sort of equipment as the other firm, and are also in a position to make cigaret tissue upon a moment's notice...
...happens that C. H. Dexter & Sons Inc. are in exactly the same field of paper manufacture as the Schweitzer firm...
Nicaragua, U. S. citizens and other aliens in the little towns along the Mosquito Coast waited breathlessly for a repetition of the bandit raids which caused the slaughter at Logtown fortnight ago (TIME, April 27). In Washington Secretary Stimson stood firm under the lashings of Big Stick Advocates. The new Hoover-Stimson Nicaraguan policy was backed up by British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson with an announcement to the effect that Britain, too, will not attempt to protect her nationals in Nicaragua's interior...
...Exchange's visitors' gallery a member of the big firm of Pynchon & Co. was showing a guest the usual sights. That crowd of brokers, he explained, was dealing in United States Steel; the Big Board with its continuously flapping little number cards was the method by which brokers are called to the telephone; the little gallery below the Board was known as the President's Rostrum; that day the president, Richard Whitney, was in Philadelphia making a speech on "Business Honesty," but few visitors ever see the president for only on the most important occasions does...
...Wall Streeters were hard put for an answer. As long ago as last September when tides of rumor were at a height, many things were said about the condition of Pynchon & Co. Widely known was the fact that Chase National Bank, perhaps assisted by another institution, had seen the firm through heavy trouble with loans estimated at from $10,000,000 to $20,000,000. Early last week the old rumor again leapt forth. Heavy selling came into those securities of which Pynchon & Co. and its customers have been fond. Yet many people thought that the Chase would not desert...