Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kroner. Prize presentations and the prizemen's acceptance speeches were at separate ceremonies. Each Nobel check for 172,946 kronor ($46,350) was encased in a sleek portfolio. Redder and redder flushed red-haired Author Lewis as the three other prizemen received their portfolios. When his turn came to step up to King Gustaf and receive $46,350 from the Royal hand Mr. Lewis advanced jerkily, bowed abruptly, deeply...
...mergers pending an investigation of holding companies has never left committee, its influence has helped retard all consolidation moves. Last week the I.C.C took a step forward toward its own consolidation plan (TIME, Dec. 30). It ordered Pennsylvania R. R. to get rid of its 48% stock ownership in Wabash R. R. and 30% stock ownership in Lehigh Valley within six months. These holdings were valued at $106,592,757. The I.C.C. declared that the Perm's interest in these other roads was a violation of the Clayton act. Pennsylvania R. R. claimed it bought into these roads...
...companies. Confident were steelmen that the law of supply & demand will not work in their case. Rather, they contended that many a prospective buyer of steel has awaited lower prices, now will see he cannot get them, will rush into the market. Thus they viewed their move as a step toward new business activity. Not for some time will the steelmen's reasoning be submitted to the actual test of orders received. Many a financial writer last week looked back at 1921-22 when the rise of iron and steel prices presaged a business recovery. Apparently forgotten, however...
...long-haired artist is gone. The present day artist is likely to be a well-dressed, well-set-up man in a tweed suit with well polished shoes and a smart tie, moving with quick athletic step . . . looking more like a man of affairs than a dreamy esthete. . . . The Academy now needs ample gallery space, so that every good picture can be hung and every good piece of sculpture can be placed...
...fact that they received two cents an hour less in their pay envelope. The next month, Lamont, representing a group of 50 Harvard graduates announced that they would raise $5,000 to give to the scrubwomen. This plan failed, and the case was considered concluded until the latest step. The letter of the committee headed by Lamont, on October 24, explained the aim of the fund, "to repair the original injustice and to convince the general public that a more humane and generous temper characterizes Harvard than that which has been displayed by the present administration...