Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...restrict output ... to cooperate with the operators for the promotion of efficiency and the production of an improved car of coal." An arbitration committee, composed of the twelve men who negotiated the new contract, was set up to deal with all work and wage disputes under the agreement, to gather facts by experts...
Above the upper reaches of the stratosphere, higher than man has ever studied, stretches the Kennelly-Heaviside layer of ionized ether which acts as a conductor (or reflector) of radio waves. If man could study these regions he might gather valuable meteorological data, possibly discover new air travel lanes for aircraft of the future...
Profits. Two huge holding companies last week revealed proportionately huge profits. Transamerica Corp., holding company for the $1,167,116,000 worth of banks that Amadeo Peter Giannini managed to gather together before he retired this year, in its 1929 earnings statement, set down its net profit for the year at $67,316,000, or nearly $3 per share on the 24,000,000 shares outstanding (now selling at $26). However, the management holds "it would be lacking in ordinary business prudence" to ignore the current depression, plans to cut the October quarterly dividend from 40¢ to 25¢ a share...
Forty members of the Glee Club will gather at this Tercentenary event next month, to render a program gleaned from outstanding numbers of the past season. This is the first mid-summer gathering of the kind in several years. A. T. Davison '96 will act as conductor...
...from his friends in the Freshmen Dining Halls where he conducts experiments on Lowell House food. By way of a short digression it might be explained that he once upon a time had other Cambridge mail until Radcliffe gave up trying to understand. From this mild suggestion one may gather that, like the Jester, the Vagabond has troubles of his own. But after all, the young people across the Common are ladies and Mr. Curley is Mayor of Boston...