Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in Augusta, Maine the late Tycoon Mulliken went to Chicago in 1868 and amassed an enormous fortune selling switches, signal towers, hand-cars and other supplies to the booming railroads of the U. S. In 1922 he established the investment banking house of Mulliken & Roberts in New York City and-his Chicago house being "haunted"-moved to a 1,200-acre estate at New Canaan, Conn. There, his guests used to be driven around his estate in a private sight-seeing bus with the top down. His favorite cars were two Reo taxicabs with the meters taken out. When...
...noonday last week in a thousand newspaper offices, when the automatic news tickers jangled the signal, FLASH! and copy boys raced to news desks with yellow slips reading CALVIN COOLIDGE DEAD, a thousand news editors knew instantly what to do. But the editor of the New York Morning Telegraph was puzzled...
Four Harvard professors have received signal honors at the annual meetings of various academical societies which have convened during the Christmas holidays. A. d. Lamb, Professor of Chemistry and director of the Chemical Laboratories, was chosen president of the American Chemical Society for 1933, it was announced on December 28, following a meeting of the council of the society. He has already served during this year as president-elect. At the same time, J. B. Conant '13, Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, was elected one of the Councilors-at-large of the society...
...inquiry. ... To such a case the Federal judicial power extends." Chief Justice Hughes would not discuss the use of military force: "The question ... is simply with respect to the Governor's attempt to regulate by executive order the lawful use of complainants' property. . . ." The decision was the signal for a general slashing of crude prices throughout the Mid-Continent area last week. Texas Co., which led the way, downed its posted price from $1.10 to 75? a barrel. Oilmen had seen the cut coming for some time, for injunctions against proration agreements were piling up and gasoline stocks...
Many an uneasy debutant has blurred the beginning of his Town Hall recital. Singer Smith attacked his first notes so nervously and late that he had to signal to the orchestra to start over again. But with his second attempt he had mastered his vocal powers like a seasoned artist. Manfully he proceeded to display a firm, dark-hued tenor voice. It had no great volume, no ringing top notes. It had evidently been strained, misused. His sunken chest and relaxed abdomen were witnesses of faulty breathing which must have gone on for years. But the tones of his middle...