Word: lane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Certain other issues had a better fate last week, notably that of Continental Can Co. whose $20,000,000 of preferred stock, offered at $100 a share, went at a premium of $102, to the vast delight of Goldman, Sachs & Co. Similarly, a new firm named Lane-Wells Co. (which owns a unique process of "blowing in" oil wells with something called a "gun-perforator") successfully sold 40,000 shares at $15 each in its first public financing to the joy of Hartley Rogers & Co. But Continental Can is unusually strong and Lane-Wells enjoys unusual earnings. Other companies, less...
...skirting Michigan Avenue, route the main flow swiftly north & south along the very edge of the Lake away from the city's downtown streets. Land was bought, drained, beautified. Sixteen hundred acres of lake shore: were filled in. To the north, Michigan Boulevard was widened into a four-lane local and a four-lane express highway. To the south on manufactured land, a chain of smooth drives converged toward the city. By 1935 the whole vast project, costing an estimated $100,000,000 was completed-except at the city's most vital point, a scant quarter mile stretch...
...links' main span across the river which cost $2,885,000 is the biggest bascule bridge in the world. Locally dubbed Centennial Bridge, the double-leaf structure is 331 ft. long, wide enough (108 ft.) for eight traffic lanes, rests its 18,400,000-Ib. on 32 caissons, sunk to bedrock, 102 ft. below water level. It is so delicately balanced that no more than two 100 h.p. motors are required to lift its huge jaws skyward for occasional vessels to pass in & out. of the Chicago River. Some Chicagoans were disconcerted by the two right angle turns...
Committeemen of the research fellowships of the Council include Carl C. Brigham, of Princeton University, A Ircing Hallowell of the University of Pennsylvania, Lane W. Lancaster, of the University of Nebraska, Walter R. Miles, of Yale University, Frederick C. Mills, of Columbia University, Roy F. Nichols, of the University of Pennsylvania, Robert Redfield, of the University of Chicago, Walter R. Sharp, of the University of Wisconsin, Blair Stewart, of Reed College, and Malcolm M. Willey, of the University of Minnesota...
...Disappointed were many good citizens-not all of whom were Roman Catholics-who prefer to practice birth control by periodic abstinence rather than by mechanical or chemical means. Last week Dr. Burr cheered such folk by effectively contradicting his denial. Stated he in Science: "The use of the Burr-Lane-Nimms technique enables one to determine with certainty and accuracy the time of ovulation in an intact human being...