Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meet Mr. MacDonald's ideas of how the U. S. and Britain should achieve first naval parity and then mutual reduction of armaments. Pleased, but unwilling to make a snap decision without expert judgment, the Prime Minister personally rang up the Admiralty, asked First Lord Albert Victor Alexander to step over. When he came and approved the Hoover offer Scot MacDonald hesitated no longer. For more than a month he had been unable to say definitely whether or not he would visit President Hoover in Washington to cement the naval bond. Now correspondents were called in, were told that when...
...When a sailor can tell a passenger 'your life boat is to the right' or 'to the left,' as the case may be, it will be a long step toward preventing the likelihood of panic. Moreover, when a man knows how to swim he is much less likely to be scared out of his wits when a ship is in danger." Declaring that his own Lloyd Sabaudo Line had at once begun to teach their crews English and aquatics, Dr. Serrati intimated that all the major Italian carriers would at once follow suit. "Our crews...
...every good bank come many sound investing opportunities which must be refused because of legal restrictions. So, in order to widen their operating field, most large banks have investment affiliates, somewhat less conservative than the banks themselves. Step Three in the employment of currency would obviously be for the bank to organize an investment trust, and that is what Chicago's Continental-Illinois Bank Trust Co., largest U. S. bank outside Manhattan, did last week. President was Arthur Reynolds, who is board chairman of Continental-Illinois. Vice-president was James R. Leavell, also a Continental-Illinois vice president...
...next step was the logical one. It was consummated last February, but the general public knew about it only last week, when Weber & Heilbroner exultantly announced that it now owned its own source of supply, that clothing would hereafter proceed from cutting room to fitting room "in one unbroken flow...
Baltimore's Aviation. Baltimore at her 100th anniversary (1829) fell in step with the very first U. S. railroads. At her 200th anniversary celebration last week (see p. 16) she was not only in step with the newest transportation, aviation, but well up at the head of the march. Items: The Aviation Corp. last week bought a $500,000 factory site to build Dornier all-metal transports; Glenn L. Martin Co. was to move into its new plant this week; Curtiss-Caproni Corp.'s new factory was almost completed; Berliner-Joyce Aircraft Corp. had just completed its first commercial biplane...