Word: streets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marriage of Messrs. Dahlberg, Mack and Groves was made in Wall Street, not in Heaven, but it works surpassingly well. Last week's announcement of the approaching sale, largely in Europe, of 100,000 common shares of Celotex Corp. called attention to their successful venture in corporate resuscitation...
Talented Financier Groves had popped up in Wall Street with some money he made in Baltimore, pieced together a few wobbly investment trusts under the name of Equity Corp. and sold them to David Milton, son-in-law of John D. Rockefeller Jr., for a neat profit of $750,000. After that, he bought control of Phoenix Securities Corp., an inconspicuous investment trust then worth some $4,000,000, lured young Walter Mack Jr. away from Equity Corp. to help him run it. Financier Mack comes of a wealthy family, was 1917 at Harvard, operated a cotton mill...
...companies are experimenting with rubber-laminated walls for houses. A section of rubber paving in Akron's East Market Street that has lasted ten years points to a lucrative field if crude rubber prices ever fall low enough to compete with concrete. Rubber is vulnerable to oil and sun, so scientists have developed rubbery synthetics like DuPrene which are not. Such new products as Goodyear's Pliofilm and Goodrich's Koroseal are beginning to threaten Cellophane as packaging material. From rubber conveyor belts (Grand Coulee Dam has one 10,000 ft. long), the industry expects to make...
...four buildings of the Graduate School of Engineering opposite the University Museum on Oxford street, will be open to visitors and faculty members. Student guides will be on hand at all the points of interest to explain the exhibits...
...they too thought that this new invention was nothing but a curse, an evil contrived by the devil himself. They feared that the cows would give sour milk, that the hens would either not lay or else lay hard-boiled eggs. The same attitude prevailed when street-cars and trolleys came into widespread...