Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pierce & Co.* was formed as successor to A. A. Hausman-Gwathmey & Co. Rapidly the new firm began an unparalleled career. By Jan. 24 it acquired another house, has been growing ever since. Soon no dispute arose when the phrase "largest wire house" was used in connection with E. A. Pierce & Co. Since last fall its primacy has been strengthened by numerous acquisitions. Of these, purchase of the brokerage business of Merrill, Lynch & Co. was the most important, and the taking over last week of four of the seven offices of Charles D. Robbins & Co. was the latest...
...long as Mr. Milne shows the past with a charmingly sentimental wit, he is on firm ground. He creates a strong sympathy for both of his leading characters that follows to the end of the play. When he sets David to orating on the Futility and Superficiality of the present he unfortunately fails to be convincing, or even amusing. Cocktails and smart talk might be thoroughly evil, but David is merely trite on the subject. Aside from this, there is only one major fault in the play, and that is a very flat end. The discovery of the police delivered...
...mines. Once, during a shutdown, he studied stenography. A few years later his brother, a Philadelphia telegrapher, obtained work for him as a stenographer and usher in a vaudeville theatre. He went to Philadelphia, was discharged in a week. He obtained work with a sewer-pipe sales agency. The firm failed. He went to work for a metallurgical engineer, learned how to read blueprints. Six months later he went to work for a cement firm. By 1906, when he was 22, he was making $125 a month, had helped bring his parents to Philadelphia. One day he was summoned...
...Canton by Chinese workmen with coats of arms, religious symbols, ships and other designs supplied by British and American colonial buyers. The porcelain was sometimes carried in the ships of the Dutch East India Company to Amsterdam. Some of the early British orders were taken and delivered by the firm of Baker & Allen of Lowestoft, who stamped the porcelain with their own mark, hence the name...
Another lion figure of more elaborate design is worthy of earnest attention. This beast, whose body is covered with red paint and whose mane, head, tail, and paws are in a splendid, firm, yellow glaze, has not perhaps the natural grace of the first one but substitutes for it a force and feeling of austere power that the other lacks. If one allows the imagination to roam one can see here the beginning of the supremacy of realism in Babylonian and Assyrian art. This piece is not the conquest; it is but a preliminary invasion...