Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their trouble-shooter the banks drafted a bright young Arkansas banker named Samuel Wallace Reyburn.* Out of the reorganization of both the chain and the store came a rock-sound Lord & Taylor and Associated Dry Goods Corp., on whose board ever since has sat at least one Morgan partner...
...sold eight boxes of strawberries to the late great John L. Sullivan. When he wanted to learn law, young Reyburn persuaded the University of Arkansas to hold its lectures at night. At 27 he took hold of a small private banking & real estate firm, expanding it into Little Rock's big Union Trust Co. Few years ago Mr. Reyburn resigned from Lord & Taylor's presidency to devote more time to his job as head of the parent company, $40,000,000 Associated Dry Goods...
...quite well when undisturbed, but when piles are driven into it the whole mass suddenly liquefies and the piles sink. Quicksand is thus merely the upward flow of water through sand. Dry sand acts even more strangely; when all the air is pumped out, it becomes as hard as rock. This fact explains why foundations set on deep piles are usually safe...
Economic domination is what Japan wants in China. Because her costs of production are practically rock-bottom, by a strong policy of underselling she is bound to destroy the Western market in China and in time achieve that...
...plan they submitted to the Federal Court in South Bend last week bore the mark of long cogitation by their lawyers, Manhattan's famed firm of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood. It satisfied all classes of creditors and it left Studebaker in rock-sound shape. High points...