Word: flows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this and much, much more. Infinite variations of the theme. The ebb and flow of one life during four hectic and fleeting years in the most stubborn, parsimonious, tyrannical, antediluvian, irritating, tractable, generous, democratic, progressive, lovable university in America. To those who will become only a name with numerals on a card index file and a musty bluebook--goodbye. Your worthwhile additions to college life, and there were some, will be remembered; the rest forgotten. You are not Harvard any more. But you are, always Harvard...
Where the case is likely to produce new angles is on the theme of aluminum imports. Walter Rice claims that Alcoa actually belongs to the European aluminum cartel through affiliation with a Canadian corporation named Aluminum Ltd. He maintains, that Alcoa allows a small flow of imports (6% in 1937) to disguise the absolute monopoly, that more imports are prevented by astute pressure abroad through Aluminum Ltd. Said Mr. Rice in court last week: "There never were interlocking directorates or officers of the two corporations. That would have been too open. But in 1928 the stockholders of the two companies...
...latest invention is an antenna arranged behind a stack of books in a shelf in such a way that electrical waves in a perfect state of balance, flow between the antenna and the bookcase...
...Jones, whose practical handling of RFC has made him more palatable to Big Business than are most of his Government compeers. Banker Jones rose at an afternoon session just after President Edward E. Brown of Chicago's First National Bank had remarked that Government regulations hamper the free flow of credit. Said Jesse Jones: "There is a widespread feeling that credit is not readily available at banks on the character of security that many businesses have to offer, security that, in the opinion of the borrower, would furnish full protection for the lending bank. . . . I am firmly...
...been the University's sustenance from birth. Of its $121,000,000 assets, $78,000,000 came from the Rockefellers. In the 1890s the University was called a subsidiary of Standard Oil Co., was twitted in an apocryphal alma mater song: "Praise John, from whom oil blessings flow." Last week University of Chicago struck oil on a tract of land it owns in Olney, Ill,* and began to collect royalties on a gusher producing 450 barrels a day (at current prices...