Word: publicity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Public Utilities...
Second idea was to specialize in municipal bonds. In 1867 Mr. Harris had traveled through the south and west, had seen countless small but growing towns and cities. Farsighted, he looked ahead, saw the school houses, water works, roads, bridges, sewage plants and other public works of the future. Shrewd, he saw also the billions of dollars in bond issues that these communities would need. "I did not tell even my brother my estimates," he once said, "for fear he would think I was out of my head...
...said that every U. S. city with a population of more than 100,000 has put up part of its public buildings with bonds marketed through Harris, Forbes & Co. As a logical development of its municipal business, the company has in more recent years become almost equally outstanding in the field of public utility finance...
...paid $5,500,000 last January. The new buyers, Boston bankers acting for the Boston Publishing Co. management, paid some $7,000,000. The stock will now be offered to the general public...
Last week report of his most recent work, on brain extracts, reached the general public by journalistic interpretation of a weighty article in last month's issue of Medizinische Klinik (Berlin). He de scribed very technically how he crushed the brains of tree frogs and from the juice se cured an extract which he called centronervin. That extract, when injected into the lymph systems and thence into the blood stream of live frogs stimulated them remarkably. It toned up their muscles, made them stronger, especially it seemed to speed up their reactions. Treated frogs saw flies more quickly than normal...