Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peak of this pyramid of educational reforms President Lowell had long dreamed of a Society of Fellows, founded in the manner of Trinity, Cambridge. The plans for this group were outlined in the President's report for 1929-30 and in the form adopted on January 10, 1933 substantially followed that structure. Under this plan a group not exceeding 24 picked men, recently graduated, should be selected "for their promise of notable contribution to knowledge and thought." This group are known as Junior Prize Fellows and receive a yearly stipend of from $1250 to $1500 and free...
...Last week Homestake stock passed 200- only stock quoted at that figure on the New York Exchange in more than a year. * His militant peak, however, was when he ordered his London man to sink a steamer in the Suez Canal to keep the Spanish fleet fr.om going after Admiral Dewey at Manila...
Universal Credit, which at its peak did a gross business of $200,000,000 in installment sales of Fords, Fordsons. and Lincoins, is now supposed to be doing about half that amount, Ford's price for it supposed to be $20,000,000. Doing similar business are General Motors Acceptance Corp., Commercial Credit Co. and Commercial Investment Trust. The latter two are independents, finance other credit sales besides those of automobiles. Commercial Credit handles Chrysler and Packard sales, C. I. T. has Nash, Hupmobile, Graham-Paige, Hudson, Studebaker. If C. I. T. acquires Universal Credit it will about double...
...general officers of the U. S. Army have any serious fault to find with a military system through which they have worked their way to the professional peak. An exception is Major General Johnson Hagood, commander of the 7th Corps Area with headquarters at Omaha...
...post-War peak of the national debt was $25,482,000,000 in 1919. Over $8,500,000,000 was lopped off in ten years bringing it down to $16,000,000,000 in 1930. Since then $5,000,000,000 has been added, by an unbalanced Budget and depression expenditures. On March 31 the debt stood at $21,362,000,000. Of this amount just about two-thirds is in bonds, one-sixth in notes due during the next five years, one-sixth in certificates and bills due in a few months time. To have so much...