Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Though it is too soon to show modern designs that would have all the fine qualities of the flowing period of an artistic development, this is the most important phase in the growth of an architectural period as the seed from which the ultimate flower is to spring is being sown...
...been opened to let the smoke pour out. This did not, however, deter the clerk from reading some matter-of-form letters. And curiosity, perhaps, but no surprise, moved many naive listeners when the President mumbled "The place is on fire" after each letter. As the fire sub-sided, though, they found he was saying "Placed on Fire...
That was not enough, however, for at 8:40 o'clock the sirens returned. It was not the City Hall, though; it was the Police Station...
Allied also disclosed the total of its U. S. Government holdings - $21,000,000. That left $39,000,000 of miscellaneous investments. Allied long claimed that divulging these holdings would hurt its trade advantages. Last week it looked as though SEC, in persuading Allied to tell all, had promised to keep certain facts secret. Allied's report to SEC, which was made public by the New York Stock Exchange, still left $4,000,000 worth of holdings unexplained...
Meanwhile, SEC, pondering ways to regulate private security flotations, was last week told by Vice President Charles W. Kellogg of Virginia Electric & Power that private selling is short-sighted even though it does avoid underwriting costs and the irks of registration. Said he: "The buyers for the large life insurance companies are very canny gentlemen. They know just about what it costs to get an issue registered. They know just about what the spread that the company will pay to an investment banking group to sell their bonds will be. And they insist on getting both these things themselves...