Word: sections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Utilizing the famous scientific sampling method of surveying, the CRIMSON first approached that home of would-be Harvard co-eds, Radcliffe, where a typical cross-section was corralled. "What does Spring mean to you?" was the first query. The cross-section blushed, giggled a little, and turned away bashfully. "Oh, come on!" she was urged...
Thus the Dictator can hope other Russian bigwigs who might want to kill him have now been made to realize that such impulses lead, via the secret police, into the court cheering section for Stalin, thence down into the cork-lined cellars where this week the 18 were due to be noiselessly executed. Rozengolts' protestation that his children are loud in the Stalin chorus may save them, but the piece of consecrated bread may well mean death for his wife. Nothing was known last week, nothing is ever published, about the fate of members of the families...
...wanted the club's securities back. Missing now was a total of $109,384 in securities the club had trusted to Treasurer Whitney. Assistant Attorney General McCall found them at Public National Bank as part collateral for the Whitney loan, and, as the Daily News's news section put it, "Richard Whitney ... for the second time in 24 hours [was] fingerprinted and mugged like a Hell's Kitchen package thief and held in $25,000 bail...
Vass. Since all new security issues are registered with SEC, it has been the best means of analyzing their success. On the basis of a study of three years' registrations, Lawrence C. Vass, chief of SEC's Investment Banking section, decided that "the problem of financing for small business today is its inability to raise junior-debt and equity capital, rather than an absence of short-term credit." In other words, when a small business wants temporary funds, banks are glad to provide them.* But when a small business wants $500,000 to build a new plant, banks...
...housing boom, Chairman Avery dubbed the Administration's approach "superficial" in regarding building as a distinct industry. Said he, "Easy credit will not be an inducement to build homes which when built will not be worth what they cost." According to Sewell Avery, building represents a wide cross section of all U. S. industry and therefore will not revive until business as a whole regains confidence. In Gypsum's case, January and February sales were 25% under last year and the company is therefore unlikely to equal the $5,400,000 it made in 1937. This made Chairman...