Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are no trees, no grass in Red Square, Moscow's vast bleak oblong. But at least once a year the grey granite pavement (new-laid by a firm of U. S. contractors) sprouts with the thin steel blades of thousands of bayonets. It did so last week for the 13th anniversary of the Soviet state. Hour after hour the troops filed by, impressive in their grey-brown, ankle-length overcoats while airplanes flew back and forth in formation...
...best-known financiers in the South. His father, James Erwin Caldwell, is president of the venerable 4th & ist National Bank of Nashville, and founder of James E. Caldwell & Sons, insurance brokers. Son Caldwell entered the insurance business originally,'left it in 1916 to form Caldwell & Co. The firm expanded quickly, is thought to have distributed about $100,000,000 worth of securities per year in recent years. The firm has branch offices and is affiliated with Rogers Caldwell & Co., Manhattan. From the first Mr. Caldwell's slogan was: "We bank on the South," and Southern enterprises have occupied most...
...against liabilities of $1.455,064. Mr. Sisto placed his personal assets at $363.213, including life insurance policies with a cash value of $281,000, three automobiles worth a total of $4.000. Partner Norris Bates Henrotin listed personal assets of $151,190, including three automobiles totaling $600. Among the firm's creditors is its investment trust, Sisto Financial Corp. But the amount owed is only $34,860, a striking contrast to the amount Prince & Whitely owed its investment trust (TIME...
Prince & Whitely. Eugene L. Garey, counsel for Prince & Whitely, insolvent, last week promised there will soon be "a substantial and satisfactory settlement." He flayed criticism of Prince & Whitely's management, said the firm had used $12,000,000 to support the market and "protect the public from unjustified market losses...
...plot is the usual comedy of an inefficient shoe salesman who accidentally rises in social standing for an evening, finds himself a gentleman stow-away on the "Malolo" going from Honolulu to San Francisco in company with the head of his firm and his boss's pretty secretary of whom our hero is enamoured. He makes his escape two jumps ahead of the Captain in a mail sack on board an airplane in a ship-to-shore service, only to be landed in Los Angeles on a painter's platform on the side of a skyscraper. At that point...