Word: smalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occasion was the announcement that he had become Chairman of the Board of a new Five Borough Trading Corp. (his first venture in business outside of politics). The Five Borough, fostered by Jerome B. Sullivan & Co. of the New York Curb Exchange, is to finance "small, sound, growing businesses" for the benefit of the people, to save them from losing their money to tipsters and bucketshops...
Last week a carnival of full-blown pink blossoms danced on the prosaic financial pages of daily newspapers. The item was a small one in the daily grist of modernism, one more merger in a merging world. It was announced that Carnation Milk Products Co., whose head office is at Oconomowoc, Wis., whose common shares (435,440 of $25 par) sell at about $48 on the New York Curb, had arranged to acquire Albers Bros. Milling Co. of Oregon. Two and one-half shares of Carnation common stock were offered for each share of Albers preferred, two shares of Carnation...
Once a prime whaling centre, New England is now whale-conscious only when a stray carcass is washed ashore to decompose into a smelly blubbery mass. From San Pedro, Cal., a few independent whalers operate on a small scale. But except for some whaling boats that make South America their headquarters and a few English companies, Norway has a practical monopoly on the industry...
...ships that sailed last week are "factory" ships, outfitted to treat the whale's carcass after it is taken into the boat through a great opening in the bow. In the ports of New Zealand, Tasmania and Australia, these vessels are met by the small "killer" boats which bring in the whales. In addition to airplanes, modern "factory" ships use radio telephones, while the small "killers" carry a cannon that shoots a time-fused, explosive, 120-lb. harpoon. Once splashing and spouting in all the seas, whales are now found plentifully only in small areas of the Arctic and Antarctic...
...General Electric Co. and Rauch & Lang Corp., it has a gasoline engine which drives a dynamo and, from the electric current so created, a motor which is connected by a shaft with the rear axle.* Of all Colonel Green's cars only one does he drive, a small electric storage battery car which he uses to go sight-seeing on his estate. Last week, however, he took the wheel of the new car which has no clutch, no gear shift, merely a brake and accelerator. So pleased was he that he ordered a similar model limousine and was reported...