Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that in 1936 securities issued to obtain new capital amounted to $1,200,000,000, or more than the aggregate for the previous four years combined. During the first five months of 1937 new corporate capital financing totaled $526,187,000 compared to $310,709,000 in the same period of 1936. Notable issues: by Johns-Manville, $10,000,000 in common stock; by Pennsylvania Railroad, $52,000,000 in debentures; by Burlington Mills, $3,150,000 in common stock; by Fruehauf Trailer Co., $1,500,000 in debentures; by Wilson & Co., $6,500,000 in debentures; by Inland Steel...
Recalling the World War years, most German-Americans agree that their neighbors' spy hysteria shattered not only their nerves but, for a time, their faith in the U. S. as well. Yet during that frantic period, Austrian Immigrant Ludwig Bemelmans, a 19-year-old U. S. Army recruit whose English could barely be understood, almost completely escaped the spy mania and acquired an affection for the U. S. that embraced factory landscapes, a "wondrously beautiful" prostitute and the insane. My War with the United States, a translation of his German diary, is the record of that sunny Americanization. Smiling...
...write and covers only 52 of France's 80 years. Author Dargan, Professor of French Literature at the University of Chicago, excuses himself from covering the last 28 years by saying that the facts are too hard to get straight, that France only repeated himself during that period. A painstaking job, Anatole France is a scholarly juggling of biography and criticism aimed at separating the tangle of legends (including many an anecdote told by Anatole France's secretary Jean-Jacques Brousson) and the blind-man-&-the-elephant judgments of fellow-writers. Except to suggest that France lived...
Examinations begin today--Mid-Year period extends until February...
...sense of frustration. There was nothing to do but about and boat the air like the frenzied rooter at a football game nothing to do but join the chorus of that particular world which was your own. And not to conform to one world or another during that period was to incur a potent blast of hostil criticism from every side...