Word: ponderers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Summoned for a special meeting in Philadelphia one day last week were the rich and conservative directors of United Gas Improvement Co., oldest public utility holding company in the U. S. (1882). They assembled to ponder a question which worried every other director, in every other utility holding company in the land: to register or not to register with the Securities & Exchange Commission under the Public Utility...
Britain's refusal to withdraw her fleet from the Mediterranean leads one to ponder on the exact status of what we have always been brought up to regard as the greatest navy of all time. Never before in modern history has the Admiralty been faced with a situation comparable to that now on its hands. For the first time the power of the British navy is definitely in question. The Mediterranean fleet is far superior to the Italian force in gross tonnage, but the Fascist ships are in an extremely strong position and are vastly more mobile...
...such a hot day," dryly observed the senior judge, "that if such a thing were permitted the spectators would desire permission to strip too. No, no, Maitre Torres!'' And the Court rose to ponder its decision until this week...
...tariff reduction. They pointed out that devaluation of the dollar had in effect nearly doubled the barrier to French imports. If the 90% duty on French lace were halved, domestic lace-makers would still enjoy more protection than they did three years ago. What the trade pact negotiators must ponder is whether concessions to France, where lace-making is a major industry employing 50,000 people, will gain markets for enough U. S. exports to compensate for unemployment created in the U. S. lace industry...
...York, summoned his trustees to the most important meeting in his business career. Up for vote was a new pension plan by which all employes and executives were to retire at 70. Among those to go would be President Cortelyou, nearly 73. Long did the trustees ponder the 26 years of his presidency before casting their votes: he had lifted the company's assets from $332,000,000 in 1909 to $1,360,000,000 in 1934; he had doubled the sale of gas, bought up many a profitable electric company; from his modest office on Irving Place...