Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maritime Commission, would ride out the storm. . As their plight grew worse. Third Engineer Bortas Balaskas slipped into the radio room at 4:15 a. m., stood over the operator with drawn knife, commanded him to break the captain's orders and send a call for help. It was too late. Dislodged as the gale tossed the ship, the Tzenny Chandris' cargo shifted. She listed crazily, water rose in the hold, the pumps ceased as the freighter foundered. All hands scrambled excitedly off into the dark, cold water...
This indisputable fact has lately achieved singular importance in Washington, for a flood of new construction might help stem the ebbing business tide, a notion which also occurred to Herbert Hoover in 1929. What President Roosevelt now proposed was to end the New Deal's power advance-provided the private powermen would accept his theories of rate-making. Since utilities are usually monopolistic, it is universally accepted that for the best public interest their rates should be established and regulated by law. The general theory is that rates should be only high enough to yield enough profit to attract...
...wanted to be an architect, but Gimbels have been storekeepers ever since 1842 when an earlier Gimbel started a trading post for fur trappers in Vincennes, Indiana. Adam went to Yale Architectural School for two years but he did not go into architecture. Instead, in 1915, he started to help keep the family stores. Storekeeper Horace Saks died in 1925, just after opening a store on Fifth Avenue and selling out to Gimbel Bros. Adam Gimbel's cousin Bernard made him president of Saks-Fifth Avenue. But after 17 years of storekeeping, handsome Storekeeper Adam Gimbel still...
...Davison and Merritt, Dr. Leicbtentritt, and others have attracted an increasing number of music concentrators and graduates into the Department whose teaching force the authorities refused to expand. Last year, when the over-burdened teaching staff was faced with turning away graduates and concentrators alike, any suggestion of financial help was spurned...
When the breaking point was reached, however, the authorities were glad to see that an outside source supplied Dr. Willi Apel, who teaches one section of the basic harmony course, Music A, but who works primarily with graduates. Of great help to the students, he is indispensable to the Department, since no other man is fully informed on advanced musical notation. Next year, however, he must leave, for the powers above have pronounced sentence. They are unable to support him. The results of their decision are two-fold: first, one section of Music A being graduated, one half...