Word: spurring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rise from head of a timber crew in the north woods to the partnership he has set his heart on, Barney Glasgow has to do more than spur his gang on to a record cutting. He has to marry the boss's unappealing daughter. For this high hurdle in ambition's path he gets up courage by a brief affair with a dance-hall hostess (Frances Farmer), not the least of whose charms is a convenient knack of converting beer trays into lethal missiles in a barroom brawl. When Glasgow goes off to marry his heiress, the eccentric...
...index of Recovery, U. S. Steel's dividend policy may have been distorted by the new Federal tax on undistributed profits, a measure calculated to spur any directorate to generous treatment of stockholders. What was significant was that U. S. Steel's directors had the means with which to be generous. In the past five years the net result of U. S. Steel's operations was a loss of $132,000,000. In announcing the dividend action Chairman Myron Charles Taylor reported that U. S. Steel's profits for the third quarter of 1936 were...
...Although both authors revealed an intermittent circumspection, both were sufficiently engrossed in telling their own stories to make indirect admissions of which they appeared to be unaware. Cut in the same pattern as those books, The Countess from Iowa is nevertheless much less interesting, much more guarded, offers little spur to the imagination...
Even a flock of favorable dividend actions last week failed to spur the market over its previous high. Westinghouse Electric raised its annual rate ($3 to $4). Young Walter Paul Paepcke's Container Corp. declared a 25? payment, its first in five years, and Texas Pacific Coal & Oil a 25? payment, its first in more than eight years. Harry Ford Sinclair's Consolidated Oil went on a regular 60? annual basis with promises of extras. U. S. Smelting & Refining raised its periodic payments from...
...philosophy which Franklin Roosevelt announced two months ago at Baltimore. But last week, although it was touch and go whether Congress would adjourn June 6, the President took a strictly laissez faire attitude toward legislative matters. No message of his was rushed to the Capitol to spur jaded legislative steeds or to direct their course. At his press conferences he told newshawks that he really had not heard how the tax bill was getting...