Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clark ("Bank On the South") Caldwell, high-flying Tennessee financier and promoter. Last November Lea-Caldwell enterprises, which were beginning to take the whole South for their province, went crashing down into the dust of Depression (TIME, Nov. 24). Last week it seemed likely that their financial crash would rock Governor Horton, their friend and ally, down into political ruin...
...People now realize that the President has been the most stable force in U. S. business. He has stood pat. . . . The tendency to blame him for every cow that went dry has vanished. . . . The President has accomplished some difficult navigation in rough seas. More people have tried to rock the boat than usual in a depression. The boat rockers have succeeded in getting about everybody's feet wet but the President has seen to it that they haven't capsized the ship...
...landslide at Cinq-Mars, France, as he attempted to save the life of a Mme Briand,* servant at a chateau. Hearing Mme Briand's cries in a barn cut into a chalk cliff by the River Loire, General Dunlap rushed in, followed by M. Briand. Earth and rock buried the three. Next day diggers found Mme Briand alive...
...Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron 630 656 Poor & Co. (railroad equipment) 629 211 Shell Union Oil 3,155 D 9,903 D Simms Petroleum 37 D 396 D Standard Oil of Calif. 9,430 4,368 Timken Roller Bearing 3,106 1,314 United Aircraft & Transport 900 806 White Rock...
...Last fortnight TIME reported White Rock Mineral Spring Co. as showing a 2,885,000 DEFICIT during the first quarter. This was a typographical error. White Rock's first quarter showed earnings of $212,000, a drop of $45,000 under 1930. White Rock's annual net has averaged $1,000,000 for seven years...