Word: sec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps, as the friend who is reading the sports page in his old green armchair complains, these thoughts tend to the sentimental and the florid, but how else would one think of Spring? Would one peek out the window, sec leaves waving on trees, lawnmowers on the grass, and merely cry, "Swell"? Would one stroll along either bank of the Charles, search the darkness for couples increasing the pleasure of the night, and, but sigh? At least, one should do more than sigh...
...blossoming of foliage, trees, and flowers is an expression of Man's feeling towards Spring. Many people travel miles to sec the first crab apple blossoms, the first petals on the Japanese cherry trees. Thousands are thronging natural parks to view magnolias, azaleas, and other fragrant flowers. Most any Sunday afternoon the Vagabond can be seen walking, with a dark-haired lass in a lovely white frock on his arm, through the paths of the Arnold Arboretum, which is located five miles out of Boston on Jamaica Pond Parkway...
...seconds later Announcer Morrison recovered his voice, went on with his transscription. But by that time the worst and most completely witnessed disaster in the history of commercial aviation was over, the 803-ft. Hindenburg was gone, destroyed in precisely 32 sec. before 1,000 appalled spectators. It was almost as if it had been done as a laboratory experiment, like a discarded battleship blown up for target practice before experts. If such an experiment had been planned, it would have been hard to gather a more competent battalion of onlookers—Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl, No. 1 U. S. airship...
...which Mr. Reis was secretary-treasurer in 1932-33. His plan is to form a national organization with dues assessed to individual security owners according to their holdings. A paid staff of lawyers, accountants and financial experts would analyze and evaluate new issues as applications were made to the SEC for listings.* Investors' Research would not only issue confidential bulletins to members but they would attend stockholders' and bondholders' meetings, play watchdog on corporate activities, maintain legislative lobbies to protect investors' interests at Washington and among the States...
...citizen may secure photostatic copies of any application listed by the SEC at a charge of 10? per page for the first 100 pp., if for additional pages...