Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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United Corp. was created Jan. 7, 1929, when J. P. Morgan and Co., in common with most U. S. elevator boys and other brokerage hangers-on, was somewhat overexuberant. Morgan & Co. and its "good neighbor" Bonbright & Co., put up $20,000,000, plus common stocks of great utility systems, giving United $150,000,000 in assets. They installed softspoken, aristocratic George Henry Howard as president of the new utility combine. Howard was one of the smartest graduates of the informal law school that the late Dwight Morrow ran at Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett's Manhattan lawshop, before Morrow became...
...last decade faced dwindling incomes. Service charges have been inaugurated or increased, bank interest rates have been cut or abolished. Few weeks ago New Jersey's banking department ordered banks to cut interest to a maximum of 1% on savings and time deposits, and local bankers were somewhat apprehensive of mass withdrawals. Quite different was the situation in Booneville, Iowa...
While General Goes Monteiro, Chief of Staff of Brazil's Army, last week basked in a warm welcome from the U. S. Government, U. S. educators found Brazil's capital, Rio de Janeiro, somewhat chillier...
...admired the glass curb reflectors which outline the road at night. He stopped, got out, examined the reflectors minutely with a flashlight. Later he asked the Connecticut Highway Department for samples and manufacturing details, saying he intended to urge installation of the reflectors on English highways. The Connecticut officials, somewhat embarrassed, informed Captain Plugge that the Merritt Parkway reflectors were copies of those in use on the road from Evesham to Worcester, England...
...spots. Mrs. Lowell was kind, looked after the Goritzins in illness, raised their wages to $200 a month, reluctantly let them go when she moved into a house that was too big for them to manage. The rest of Service Entrance is a chronicle-somewhat humorless, written in upstairs rather than backstairs English-of abuse, exploitation, wretched servants' quarters, meals on leftovers, petty impositions, large-scale cheating. (Young Mr. Carter, a febrile, Napo-Iconic financier, was the most egregious character of the lot: though he was rich enough to keep a yacht, he diddled the Goritzins...