Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news in Austin, Governor James V. Allred, whose wife the day before had presented him with their third son, at first hoped it had been "exaggerated." But as further reports came from New London all Texas shuddered with the story of a disaster that outranked, for horror and staggering loss of life, anything since the S. S. General Slocum burned in New York City's East River in 1904. From Houston in a chartered bus hastened the advanced classes of the Landig College of Embalming...
...view Edinburgh by moonlight, the Swiss Alps, St. Peter's in Rome and other romantic views set up and painted by its owner, M. Louis Daguerre. For several years Scenepainter Daguerre had been experimenting with photography, had invented a secret process for taking pictures on sensitized copper plates. Loss of the Diorama was the loss of Daguerre's income. He accepted an annuity of 4,000 francs ($800) from the French Government for the secret of his invention, which was shortly the subject of a booklet soon translated into six languages, published in 26 editions...
...citizen was again honored at home by having a new parkway named after him. Verity Parkway, as a publicity release related, was a tribute to the man who had operated the country's eighth largest steel company for a third of a century without the loss of a pound of production or an hour's work from labor trouble. Armco spirit, Mr. Verity once wrote, makes for "Pep, Pride, Production, Progress, Patriotism and Prosperity." To Middletowners George Verity seems in deed eternal...
...Noted with glee by Wall Street newshawks in the annual report of the New York Stock Exchange last week was an item relating to the Exchange's own investments: "Loss on sale of securities $13,452.70." That, however, was an improvement over the year before when the Ex change as an institution took a $19,254 loss on investments...
...fields of concentration 14 showed an increase of concentrators this year, 10 showed a loss, while two remained unchanged. Marked increases were shown in nearly all the sciences. Chemistry rose from 46 concentrators of last year to 66 for this year. Biology increased from 26 to 35, and the Geological Sciences have 22 concentrators this year as contrasted to last year's 18. Romance Languages fell from 53 concentrators to 36. Contradictory to the general science trend Physics dropped from 23 to 18, and Fine Arts increased from 18 to 28. Philosophy, too, rose slightly, from...