Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talk, dealing with the proposed National Plan for completing the topographic map of the United States, will include an account of a boat trip through the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River. The public will be admitted free...
Reprinted as two of his five chapters are his argument of 1934 and a later speech explaining its genesis. Inspired by the over-complexity of professional economists on the subject of the business cycle, the original Dawes plan was to reduce the last three big depressions to their simplest terms, draw parallels for the current guidance of businessmen. Putting the months of the stockmarket crashes of 1873, 1893 and 1929 on one baseline, he superimposed charts of durable goods activity for the following ten-year periods. In each of the earlier depressions pig iron production & prices began to recover exactly...
...Louis went into receivership in 1923, was ordered sold in 1929. Old bondholders have not been willing to put up the cash necessary to put through a reorganization. RFChairman Jesse Jones was all ready to partition the fallen carrier among other western railroads (TIME, Sept. 23, 1935), but that plan involved abandonment of 500 miles of line. The communities which would lose their railroad put screws on their Congressmen, who have thus far blocked the Jones partition plan. Old Frederick Henry Prince, who has bought and sold a railroad or two in his 77 crotchety years, also had a plan...
Carried in a Boston paper yesterday as "circulating about the Capital" was the rumor that newly-appointed Law School Dean Landis had received a letter from President Conant cautioning the S.E.C. chief about "indiscreet" court plan and sit-down statements, which had cost the University $250,000 worth of endowments...
President Conant told the gathering that his American history extra-curricular plan will help meet the criticism that college men have no capacity for intellectual expansion after graduation. He indicated that the reading list for the history course will be published soon...