Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...specialize in furnishing lots of less than 100 shares for small purchasers, do roughly one-third of the business transacted on the Exchange. Wire houses and oddlot brokers are able to turn far less than 15% of their gross into net profit. If stock-trading were to reach and stay at a level of 6,000,000 shares a day the brokers could bear the tax, but in slack periods like the present a 5% tax on gross income might completely erase the profits of many...
Henry Ford continued to stay in the nation's headlines by doing nothing at all last week. As a "rugged individualist" he persisted in holding out against "robust collectivism" in the form of the NRA automobile code. He puttered around his northern Michigan camp, gave no inkling of his intentions, sneaked back to Detroit in the rear of a canvas-sided auto trailer. His friends said he was more concerned with his health than with the Blue Eagle. His critics called him a stubborn old codger who had never learned to cooperate with anyone...
Asked whether he thought U. S. influence had exploded the first revolution, he replied, "That is a question I would not care to answer." He went on:". . . I will stay here for about three months. Here I feel I am safe. ... I am. not afraid, I am ready to go back to Cuba to face either civil or military trial if Cuba gives me a guarantee of my personal safety...
...name for himself, but little things prevent it. After 20 years, he is still talking about leaving, still accepting vegetables in payment of his fees. When Letty McGinnis (Dorothy Jordan)-at whose birth he performed a Caesarean operation-gets into trouble with young Bill Radford, Dr. Watt has to stay on and see that she recovers from drinking poison. Bill marries Letty. When Bill begins misbehaving and Letty falls ill, it is Dr. Watt, not his son Jimmy, grown into a prosperous young surgeon, who saves her life again. His reward for a lifetime as a self-abnegating "country plug...
...Michigan last week 1,500 rural schools opened prematurely, to save as much as possible in fuel while the weather is still warm. In other States, where schools closed early last spring and looked as if they would stay closed this autumn, educators took heart. They were going to get Federal help. To be sure, not the thoroughgoing help they had long been asking for, but nevertheless something. Federal Emergency Relief Administrator Harry Lloyd Hopkins announced that unemployed school teachers would be put in rural schools that might otherwise have been closed. They will receive work-relief wages, through State...