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...offered, nearly as many more announced. Some merely represented the marketing of blocks of stock closely held, a type of deal which will tend to multiply as prosperity increases. An example of this kind of deal was last week's offering of 25,000 common shares of Chicago Rivet & Machine Co., a tight little $1,000,000 concern which dutifully recorded in its registration statement that it was one of the respondents in anti-trust proceedings against members of the Institute of Tubular Split & Outside Pronged Rivet Manufacturers. Sale of the stock will provide no money for the company...
...list the patent medicines sold over U. S. drugstore counters for the cure of arthritis. They included analgesics like aspirin, local balms like antiphlogistine, blood builders like ferric ammonium citrate. Some of their names: Joyzone Pain Analgesic, Clear Water Joint Ease, Rising Mist, Wizard Balm, U-Rub-It, Rivet Cold Breaker, Pain Knocker, Oil-O-Youth, Root-Tea-Na-Salve...
Iron Men's inconsequential and unconvincing story concerns a crack squad of "connectors," the men who bolt structural beams in place to be followed by the "gunners'' who rivet them. Andy, the arrogant and prideful leader of the gang, becomes angry when one of his men, Nils, announces that he is going to quit because his wife is afraid he will fall. Another man does fall, whereupon his co-workers traditionally knock off for the day, start drinking in their favorite barroom. When Nils refuses to change his mind. Andy drunkenly concocts a ruse by which...
...professorship which shall not be attached narrowly or finally to any particular department. Departmental work is to go on as before, since it will be as necessary and important as ever. But it is proposed that these new chairs shall be endowed under terms of gift that will not rivet them immovably in one spot on the map of the field of learning. When this is done, it will be possible to fit a chair to a man, instead of squeezing a man into a fixed chair in a designated and perhaps too narrow subject. It is proposed to reserve...
...Chairman-President Tom Mercer Girdler of Republic Steel drove the last rivet in his long-delayed merger with Corrigan, McKinney (TIME, Sept. 10, 1934). After stockholders of both companies ratified the proposal at simultaneous meetings in Cleveland and Jersey City, N. J., Tom Girdler announced that he and his fellow steelmen were "fairly optimistic" for the first time since...