Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are only a few major raw materials of which the U. S. does not have its own supplies. Such are rubber...
...Frank's thesis was embodied in a question "Is it perhaps not desirable that the bulk of long-time financing of our major American industries should hereafter be done through the issuance of shares of stock, rather than by borrowings through the issuance of long-term bonds?" Taking the railroads as the classic example of an industry weighed down with fixed charges,* he pointed out that when a railroad fails, bondholders suffer just about as much as preferred stockholders...
Jerome Frank's theory is another approach to the problem: not to prevent saving but to prevent it from being translated into fixed charges. Emphasizing that his proposal was not officially inspired, he pointed out its major difficulty: the necessity of changes in State laws to allow banks and insurance companies to invest in stocks. Preferred securities he maintained would be just as sound investments for banks if they carried voting control when dividends were in arrears, thereby giving preferred stockholders the right to force a change in management...
Estelle Lawson Page, after breaking all the course records in the Carolinas (she has made five holes-in-one) and winning most of the major Southern tournaments, made national headlines last year when she won the medal honors in the U. S. women's championship for the second year in a row, and then went on to upset golf's famed medal jinx by winning the tournament. Patty Berg made national headlines two years earlier when, as a 17-year-old unknown, she reached the final of the U. S. women's championship in her first...
Total number of enrollments in the courses of each major department (including of Graduate Students...