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...Robertson to his 1929 classmates bears out the old adage that the radical fringe hollers the loudest. Even though much of its publicity can be laid to the Boston Post, this area's own Chicago Tribune, the letter should not be shrugged off without comment. For its ideas float around all too frequently these days...
Working in adjoining offices seven days a week, 14 hours a day, Vance and Hoffman streamlined production, sales and distribution, ruthlessly cut costs. By 1935 they managed to float a $6,500,000 new stock and bond issue, unloaded White Motor Co. and pulled Studebaker out of receivership-the only time in history that a U.S. automaker has done so. Hoffman was made president, Vance chairman...
Mozart: Requiem (Robert Shaw Chorale conducted by Robert Shaw; RCA Victor Orchestra; Victor). The best recording to date, but for some reason one of the world's most beautiful scores continues to defy recording techniques: too often the chorus overpowers the orchestra when it should float over it, clouds the counterpoint when it should limn...
...major educative enterprise. Indeed I could say of myself that I fied to The CRIMSON because I was bored with the curriculum. And one of the innovations of our period, the so-called student vagabond column, which criticized courses and commented on them, was based on our desire to float around among a number of different courses in the hope at last of turning up a stimulating man. Now that I am on the other side of the academic fence, I realize that we must have been a rather insolent bunch of students and have pained our teachers--although...
...showed the same capacity for getting things done in his two years (1947-49) as boss of the World Bank. When he took over, the bank had sold no bonds, made no loans, was all but falling apart. McCloy built enough confidence in the bank to float $250 million in bonds in the U.S., lent $650 million to eight nations after satisfying himself that they were good risks. "This is a bank, not a relief agency," was his attitude...