Word: strains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pool plan quickly came under critical fire. The I. C. C.'s intent, it was argued, was to ease the financial strain on roads that were weak because of their poor geographical position by having stronger and better placed lines contribute to their support during the emergency. While loans to pay fixed charges might not increase their actual debt, it did not bring them any closer to financial daylight. Critics also complained that the proceeds of any freight rate in- crease, under the A. of R. E.'s loan plan, would ultimately return to the strong carriers which...
...selling short securities of companies he knew to be in bad condition. His activities in selling short Fox Film led to an investigation by the Stock Exchange (TIME, Dec. 22). Although he was exonerated of violating the rules or ethics of the Exchange, the long trial was a severe strain from which he was slow in recovering. Weakened by an attack of whooping cough, he died last week from a lung infection. Although he was mentioned as one of the leading bears, John Pope frowned on raiding, pools, manipulative tactics in general...
...Plan. Last week President Hoover, close to whose heart are the U. S. Home & Family, moved in a large way to supply the Yellow Springs banker with $6,000 to lend Senator Fess, to ease the strain on the three building & loan associations sufficiently for the G. 0. P. chairman to withdraw his savings, to put jobless men to work on a new Fess home, and on perhaps 200,000 other homes. The President's purpose was to thaw out the frozen mortgage market on small homes so that people could start new building and thereby contribute...
...power has become supreme and the wizards of football have groveled at my feet begging for elemency. But despite all my omnipotence I have been wise and just. Today the epitome of my wisdom will be shown. Despite the three week layoff, the probable wet field, and the strain of being the favored team Harvard will come out on top by a 13 to 6 score...
...reads in part, "Our present Economic Service is dependent upon membership fees and other subscriptions to its publications, and has never had an income large enough to insure the best results. Inadequate salaries to the senior members of our staff, overwork at certain periods in every year, and excessive strain which under the conditions proved unavoidable, have seriously hampered our work at all times. To these difficulties is now added another, namely, reduced revenues which make it necessary to institute radical changes in our plans. These changes we make with regret; but they will give us a scientific enterprise which...