Word: frequenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Davis will not alter National Park's four-year preparatory curriculum, but plans to expand its junior college course, advertise it more extensively than ever. He favors plenty of bowling, swimming, gymnastics for his girls, regular parties for neighboring collegians, frequent excursions to Washington nine miles away. Says he: "I look on this school as a magnificent laboratory...
...Fall River Line was bought by Old Colony R. R., which was absorbed 18 years later by the New Haven. Fast and frequent trains were putting a damper on water traffic; but, looked at another way, water traffic was taking some business from the railroad. The New Haven tried to solve both problems by acquiring as many shipping lines on the Sound as it could. These moves were fought tooth & nail by competitors and the Interstate Commerce Commission was appealed to time & again to pry the New Haven loose from its subsidiary, New England Steamship Co. In recent years these...
...occur when the young are learning to fly. Some years ago a report in a scientific journal of an attack brought out dozens of letters from Oregon to Ontario to Texas recording similar episodes. One Louisiana Negro was said to have lost an eye. Policemen walking lonely beats are frequent victims...
...frequent observation . . . that business sentiment is not as good as the business facts, especially in quarters influenced by the declines in the security markets. . . . The month of June completed a very satisfactory half-year in business, during which industrial production, employment and payrolls, the volume of trade, and business earnings were all higher than in any like period since the beginning of the depression. [In brief, farmers and other producers of raw materials have been getting good prices for their production, labor has had more work at high wages. Manufacturers of goods of everyday use have enjoyed a phenomenal activity...
...observing that only once in a lifetime might a man hope to buy its stock below $50 a share. Until 1931 Western Union bulls used to make great play with this remark, which indeed held true for many a lifetime ended before that year. Since then there have been frequent opportunities to buy Western Union at prices well below $50. Its first 1937 dip below that price occurred fortnight ago, when, after dropping steadily from a year's high of $83.50, Western Union slid to $49.50. Last week it broke...