Word: infantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aviation. To the pilot, aviation may mean a job, a salary. To the pedestrian, it may mean dark specks droning toward the horizon. To the entrepreneur, it means stocks, incorporations, earnings, mergers, an infant industry for skilled hands to shape. One such shaping took form last week with the incorporation of United Aircraft and Transport, Inc. A holding company, it will own all stock of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. (Wasp, Hornet motors), Chance Vought Corp. (Corsair planes) Boeing Airplane and Transport Co. (manufacturers and transporters). Capitalization: 1,000,000 shares 6% preferred, par $50; 2,500,000 common. President: William...
Life Span. In 1840 a person aged 50 might have expected to live to be 70. In spite of decreased infant mortality, public hygiene and medical skill, a person now 50 can expect to live only until he is 71. (Louis Israel Dublin, Metropolitan Life Insurance statistician...
...article closes with this quotation from the president of the Robert Browning Settlement in London: "After Master John Harvard had made his appearance on this world's stage, is it not possible that the great poet visited the Harvard home in Southwark and dandled the infant university-provider on his knee? And so you have before you the probability that the founder of the first American university was the issue of a marriage brought about through the instrumentality of the Bard of Avon a combination of which we may well be proud...
...example, a tariff of 25 per cent was robbery, but you added that you were ready to give 10 per cent., 15 per cent., 20 per cent., 22 per cent., 23 per cent., or even as high as 24 per cent. Economists are agreed that all protection, except to "infant" industries, means robbery and that the high American standard of wages is not due to tariff. How then, do you justify your willingness to concede as much as 96 per cent of the demands of the steel men? Is the steel industry an "infant" industry in this country...
...charming!" exclaimed Elizabeth, Duchess of York, and promised to carry the sketch to her daughter Princess Elizabeth ("Baby Betty") most popular infant in Great Britain...