Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the elimination of parking was discussed in committee, merchants in the "loop" area declared such a step would be ruinous to trade, adding that from twenty-five to as much as fifty per cent of their business came from motorists who parked in the "loop" in front of or adjacent to their shops...
Instruction will be provided by W. B. Nelson '31, and the work will be entirely voluntary. Freshmen may elect this type of exercise to fulfill their physical training requirements. The step was taken by the H. A. A. in response to numerous requests...
...life last week, President Irigoyen utterly nonplussed Argentine bankers and financiers generally by closing and locking Caja de Conversion (the Treasury exchange office where gold and silver may be had for Argentine paper money). Technically this order did not "suspend" gold payments, merely made them impossible. Ordinarily such a step would mean, at the very least, that Argentina was about to abandon the gold standard. Yet the gold coverage of Argentine currency issued by the Nacional Bank stood at 82% last week. Canny bankers discounted the President's amazing order as the latest greatest Irigoyen eccentricity. Argentine bonds and currency...
...shift in Standard's financial backing was generally interpreted as the initial step toward the merger of the Standard System with other utility systems connected with the Harris, Forbes group. Specifically mentioned was Associated Gas & Electric, which, rapidly expanding in the New York and New England territory has recently joined the ranks of the one-billion-dollar companies. Utility Manager H. C. Hopson, executive vice president of Associated Gas & Electric, was considered the likely head of any Standard-associated combine...
...shutdown of Gulf's Colombian fields marked the final step in a series of Latin-American difficulties. In 1926 Gulf's Colombian production was seriously diminished by the cancellation of the Barco Concession,-a concession which unique Henry L. Doherty's Cities Service Co. had obtained from the late great Colombian Virgilio Barco and had then sold to Gulf. In 1929 the Colombian Government upheld this cancellation and the matter is now before the Colombian courts. Gulf Oil has also recently suspended operations in Panama and Mexico...