Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...directors meet for dividend action, Wall Street nervously debates the possibility of a dividend cut. But with $250,000,000 in cash & Government bonds and surplus still above $400,000,000, A. T. & T. manages to stand the strain. Last week President Gifford was almost sanguine on the business outlook. Telephones in use registered a net gain of 112,000 in the three-month period, jumped another 22,500 in the first two weeks of April...
...waiting game, an attitude of tolerance in spite of the dismal outlook, is the best course of action for the disappointed Freshman to adopt. Many students now accepted for the Houses will not occupy their appointed places next fall. The significant group of "dropped" Freshmen; the large numbers who will not return for scholastic, financial, or personal reasons; the annual Sophomore exodus to the pseudo-swank of the now decrepit Gold Coast; all of these are good insurance that the bars will be raised to many before September arrives...
...vote quietly a measure of lasting importance, there is reason to hope that the progressive , spirit like that of spring, will invade the cloistered halls of more than one Department, and give impetus to courses which enable those limiting their study to one field, to broaden their outlook through an understanding not so much of the particular leaves in the various branches of learning, as of the whole branch itself--and above all, of its significance for the modern world...
...weight events, it has become traditional to bemoan the loss of Dean and Healey, but the outlook is not quite so dismal as it was before the Tri-Meet. Cahners' first place in the 35-pound weight throw against Dartmouth and Cornell give the weight men the first real encouragement they have had in many months. Millard in the shot-put is another prospective point-winner, and the versatile Emile Dubiel, who carried off points in his Freshman year at every event from broad jump to javelin-throw, can be counted on for a capable performance in the javelin-throw...
Editor Willard Monroe Kiplinger and staff strip the headlines from news, give it perspective, take the political temperature, judge the prospects and possible effects of proposed legislation, estimate the business outlook. Last week in collaboration with his longtime associate, Frederick Shelton, Editor Kiplinger published a paperbound booklet called Inflation Ahead!-What to do about...