Word: plight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Banker Myron C. Taylor of U. S. Steel, wearing a stand-up collar which accentuated his dignity, diagnosed the plight of the industry with flocks of facts and figures. The U. S. coal business had appreciably increased its volume of output in the past 50 years (1878-1928), he found, but not by the whopping percentages of other fuels...
...school student is haunted by the ominous specter of college entrance examinations. If his grades are poor, he is naturally worried; if his grades are high, he resents the necessity of having to prove his merits by supplying stereotyped information at a given date. The student whose plight may be classed in the second category requires a change in the present hide-bound restrictions...
Well does Commissioner Mahaffie realize the gravity of the roads' plight, as serious a matter to savings banks and trust funds as to railroads. In 1928 (latest figure) the nation's wealth was estimated at $360,000,000,000. Of this, about $22,000,000,000 represented the people's investment in railroads. Because most of the carriers' securities have long and regularly earned the one-and-one-half times their fixed charges (interest on bonds) required by law in New York State for securities held by mutual savings banks and trust funds, such institutions (including...
...Italy, which likes to rattle the sword but really cannot afford the martial trappings of a Great Power. Foreign Minister Dino Grandi of Italy last week accepted the invitation of Secretary Stimson to go to the White House on Nov. 14 to discuss the world's economic plight. His visit will follow that of Premier Pierre Laval of France, who was to sail for the U. S. Oct. 16. Already on their way to the U. S. were Deputy-Governor Charles Farmer of the Bank of France and Director Robert Lacour-Gayet...
...same afternoon that Secretary Mellon was on the wire to New York the Philadelphia Clearing House denounced "pernicious hoarding," issued instructions to its members not to permit withdrawal of time deposits except on 30-days notice. All savings banks did the same. Philadelphia's plight was the immediate cause for the conference at Secretary Mellon...