Word: proceeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan last week Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. spun around in his chair and seized a telephone. In Los Angeles, Fred Stone soon heard his telephone bell ring. Mr. Ziegfeld wanted Dorothy, golden-haired dancing daughter of Mr. Stone, to proceed immediately to Manhattan to play the lead in Show Girl. Where was Dorothy? On Will Rogers' ranch outside Hollywood, said her father. "Call her," snapped Ziegfeld. Fred Stone said that Will Rogers had no telephone in his breezy retreat. "Fly to her," pleaded Mr. Ziegfeld. Fred Stone said that he had risked no flying since his nearly fatal air accident last...
Able are the younger Sachses but the weightiest thinking and most potent activities of Goldman Sachs proceed from Partner Sidney Weinburg and Partner Waddill Catchings. Partner Weinburg, treasurer of Goldman Sachs Trading Corp., has the reputation of being the best "picker" (of likely issues) in the Street. A small but significant example of his selective ability has been furnished by the annual outings of the Bond Club. At this outing, automobiles are put up as prizes, tickets on the automobile are issued, and the Bond Clubbers trade in the tickets in such a manner that the smartest trader wins...
Receiving the reports, Commissioner Doran announced: "The Bureau of Prohibition will proceed to act upon applications ... for permits to manufacture whiskey for medicinal use. . . . The amount of actual whiskey on hand July 1, 1929 is 9,549,017 gallons. If further manufacture is now permitted, it will be late fall or nearly Jan. 1, 1930 before actual production commences. . . . Extensive examinations have been made of the bonded whiskey stocks and I can state that they are in sound condition. Of the 300,000 barrels in bonded storage not in excess of 1,000 barrels are of questionable quality. . . . The withdrawal...
...International Harvester] have a problem to solve we get all information in and lay it on the table and go over it collectively. . . . We all start together from scratch and think collectively. . . . This is just the way I want to start the work of this Farm Board. . . . We will proceed slowly and surely because conservatism is necessary for safety...
When U. S. producers feel the need for combination in their industry they proceed warily with one eye on the anti-trust laws. Foreign producers, however, have few inhibitions, not only in combining corporations but in regulating markets, production, prices. Thus last week a group of British and South American tin men formed the British-American Corp. with the avowed purpose of stabilizing the price of tin at ?265 a long ton ($1,284). This price would be the equivalent of about 57 1/2 a pound as compared to last week's National Metal Exchange (Manhattan) quotations of around...