Word: movements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baton Rouge the Board was joined by Secretary Hyde, its ex-officio member, who came with a well-prepared address on "The Government's Policy Toward the Cooperative Movement." What the Farm Board was about to undertake he called "a great adventure on a new frontier...
...oldest of railroad courtesies was the transportation without charge by one carrier over its lines of another carrier's private official car. Interstate Commerce Commissioner Frank McManamy conducted a long investigation of this practice, wrote an exhaustive report which the Commission approved. Commissioner McManamy found that the free-movement courtesy between roads led to grave abuses, that it was unfair and discriminatory to the ordinary traveling public, that it was contrary to Federal law. The Commission ordered the roads to "cease and desist," told them to assess one another a "just and reasonable charge" for such service...
...does not like business details. He is primarily an engineer. Many a Sikorsky order, many a deal, has been delayed by Inventor Sikorsky's futile enthusiasm for improvement, remodeling. He is almost the last of the big independent designers to succumb to the industry's merger movement...
...Convicts here are divided into four classes in accordance with their behavior. Privileges consist of extra food and extra smokes. The highest class is allowed complete freedom of movement without any supervision...
...much money is being poured into the stock market is that there are many new stocks to buy. Privately held, closed corporations are issuing stock, taking the public into partnership. Corporations that have long been publicly -owned are undertaking new financing for expansion purposes. And the merger trend-outstanding movement in current industry-continues as an important element in Industry's insatiable appetite for money. Of last week's new deals of various kinds, the following were of particular interest...