Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PHIL STONG Keosauqua, Iowa P. S. Nevertheless, don't stop my subscription...
...airmail action the President gave U. S. businessmen another jolt that made their back teeth rattle. He sent a message recommending Congress to undertake regulation of stock and commodities exchanges, a message timed to be published along with the introduction of a drastic bill (see p. 49) designed to stop all big businessmen from trading in the stock of their companies. ¶ President Roosevelt sent another message to Congress recommending that sugar be made a basic commodity, proposing definite quotas for the various sources of U. S. sugar supply. Restriction would be paid for by a processing...
...newshawks two new business "indices." "The thing to watch for is paint," said the General. "If you see a box car going along with a bright new red coat of paint on it you will know that the railroad that owns it is doing a profitable business again. . . . Everybody stops painting when profits stop. . . . Watch emery wheels. Watch the carborundum business. When industry begins to use its tools, it needs emery wheels to keep them in shape, and a lot of them." Asked how the emery wheel business was now, the General admitted: "Not so good...
Skipping rapidly from social theory to ethics and morals, the executive secretary becomes most profound, "The habit of regarding pictures emotionally must be overcome," he says, "and we must learn to take hold of our task very dispassionately. It is time to stop talking about the morals of the movies,' for morals change and movies change, and the moral viewpoint of yesterday is not the moral viewpoint of today." In addition to all this research one of Mr. Wilton's colleagues has, after long and arduous labors, discovered that the mental age of movie audiences has increased from fourteen...
Agriculturist-Diplomat Jardine's lame-duck return from Egypt last autumn was timely for Kansas Republicans. He was just the well-known, respected stop-gap they needed for the State Treasury, headless and reeking after the Finney bond scandal (TIME...