Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifty-year-old Sir Eric Geddes* returned to the U. S. last week. He came as a businessman, chairman of the Dunlop Tire & Rubber Co.,† to inspect their plants in Buffalo. Pressmen, scenting soapstone, pressed him for a statement on rubber. They got it in quick, definite sentences that comported strangely with his southern U. S. accent, which he had picked up as a youth working in southern lumber regions and on the B. & O. He said...
...last year was really a bad year for Baldwin. Mr. Vauclain has just had published to stockholders the year's statement, as of Dec. 31. Profits were only $196,563 net-the lowest since 1912. That meant only 81? a share on the $20,000,000 of 7% preferred outstanding. But the 1925 common and preferred dividend requirements amount to $2,800,000. The difference had to come from the surplus fund, leaving therein a balance...
President Clarence C. Little '10, of the University of Michigan made the following statement to the University committee recently in regard to the movement...
...Critics. New York Times: "The first mature, unbiased statement of a clear and comprehensive vision of the World War. There is enough vitality for a dozen interrelated novels...
...Latter Day Sinners and Saints, The Russian Soviet Republic. But Wisconsin has a brand new president of whom it expects much, Dr. Glenn Frank, lately editor of the Century. And Dr. Frank is still on unfamiliar ground. He has been going cautiously, observingly; has been noncommittal in deed and statement, so far. He has said he is "willing to be reactionary as the Tsar of Russia on Monday, or as radical as Leon Trotzky on Tuesday," if facts warrant (TIME, Nov. 2). What facts lie behind Professor Ross' outcry he has yet to determine...