Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brokers' Explanation. Brokers for this Soviet sale were: Harold L. Bache of the Manhattan firm of J. S. Bache & Co., who disposed of 2,300,000 bu.; Alvin Wachsman of Wachsman & Wassail who sold 3,110,000 bu.; Adolph E. Norden of A. Norden & Co., whose sales totalled 2,335,000 bu. The House committee members seemed dazed by the intricacies of grain trading as described by Broker Bache, who denied that the Soviet sales were large enough to affect the pit price, explained that if Russia had wanted to manipulate the world price, it would have sold short...
Many a law firm has investigated Widow Ryan's case, given it up. Now she is trying it herself with the aid of her son, Kingsley Ryan, graduate of St. Paul College of Law, not yet admitted to the bar. Difficult indeed is Neophyte Ryan's first case. Exhibit models of the bolts are not readily understandable to laymen; as evidence he has introduced cinemas of nuts and bolts being made at Inland Steel's works. Among the formidable witnesses scheduled to appear against Mrs. Ryan are Louis Warren Hill, director of Great Northern, Charles Donnelly, president...
...Antonio Sanchez de Bustamante, recent President of the Pan-American Congress (TIME, Jan. 16 & Feb. 27, 1928). Trading on his international prestige, on his close friendship with Cuban Dictator-President Gerardo Machado, the learned judge makes a good thing of his "vacations" in Havana. The fees of his law firm swell yearly. Bluntly, this potent Cuban feels that all Hague and no play would make Antonio a dull boy?wherefore alarums by Senor Ferrara at The Hague, the haughty Spanish phrases about the right of "sovereign states" to be as bumptious as they please, the comedy of Mutt & Jeff...
Teletype of A. T. & T. Many is the firm which eventually buys its largest customer, or is bought itself by its largest customer. Into the second classification fits the deal by which last week Teletype Corp. of Chicago passed into the American Telephone & Telegraph fold, will be operated as a subsidiary of Western Electric. Chicago Teletype manufactures printing telegraph equipment which transmits typewritten messages automatically and instantaneously between distant offices, enabling telegraph users to send their own "wires" directly, also to receive telegrams and messages from Teletype-equipped branch offices. (TIME uses such an instrument between editorial office in Manhattan...
Died. Frank Richards Ford, 59, Manhattan engineer, member of the famed engineering firm Ford, Bacon & Davis, a director of L. C. Smith and Corona Typewriters, Inc., consulting engineer and director of six other companies, planner of the Philadelphia rapid transit system and the unification of electric street railways in Chicago; after an operation, at the Medical