Word: platee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ruling of the Interstate Commerce Commission with regard to the Van Sweringen railroad merger will probably tend to clarify matters in further transportation consolidation," Professor W. J. Cunningham, Professor of Transportation in the Business School, told a CRIMSON reporter last night in an interview on the recently proposed Nickel Plate merger. "The railroad builders can now know what to expect from the Commission, and thus have a better idea of how to proceed. More over it must be clearly understood that it was the financial and not the transportation side of the affair to which the Commission objected. The merger...
...discussing the sudden drop in the stock market Professor Cunningham said that he thought it due more to a natural reaction to the former high inflation than to the effect of the collapse of the Nickel Plate merger, that the bubble of speculation had already reached undue proportions and needed only the prick of some such shock as this to make it burst...
...courage and straight-forwardness of the Interstate Commerce Commission in its decision concerning the Nickel Plate merger must be highly praised. Federal discouragement of trusts is nothing now, to be sure, but it is a pleasant novelty to study the basis of the present manifesto. It will be remembered that Roosevelt wielded his "big stick" against the steel and the packing interests in something of an ostentatious manner. Always quick to cater to popular notions, the President found a new road to the people's heart in his campaign against the trusts...
While buxom farmer-waitresses piled his plate with boiled joints, boiled vegetables, boiled puddings, he plied a fork with his free hand, rising now and then to join the farmers in a toast...
...head, the other at his stomach-that is, at the medulla and the solar plexus. On goes a current stepped to very high frequency. Patients "have reported no sensation of warmth, of cold; no sensation of any kind." "There were no visible emanations nor was a photographic plate fogged when placed in front of the pointers." Yet for four months various Portland physicians have posed patients before the machine; have noticed blood pressure, in some cases flutter towards normal; have wondered cautiously. Other physicians have studied their pressure charts; have noted that after the first change further variation was negligible...