Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modern holding company pyramid, as in a modern apartment house, when the elevators break down there are always the stairs. Last week it looked as though Financier Robert Young had made use of the backstairs of the oldtime Van Sweringen holding company pyramid...
...Young fears that Guaranty plans to vote this stock for a switch in C. & O. officers, electing friends of Guaranty rather than of Mr. Young. Though Guaranty denies such intent, Mr. Young fortnight ago got a New York court to rule that there be no Chesapeake Corp. meeting until the court has passed on Guaranty's right to vote the stock (TIME, April 25). In the interim Robert Young has gone down the backstairs by getting the public holders of C. & O. common stock to rally to the defense of its present officers. Last week...
...Chicago's Benson & Rixon Co. clothing store, and Millionaire George Rasmussen, head of National Tea Co. until his death in 1936, made a trip to Wisconsin in a high-sided Stearns touring car. Every night when he shed his goggles Tourist Benson was irked to find that, though his linen duster had protected his jacket, his trousers had got thoroughly dirty. Tourist Rasmussen, however, had solved that problem in advance, had a change at the end of a day: his tailor had made him an extra pair of pants...
Despite a severe lag behind safety requirements, German rail replacements have dropped 40% behind 1937 estimates. Contrary to official orders, new coaches, especially sleepers, have been made of wood rather than steel. Though traffic has increased by 70% since 1932 (Hitler took power in 1933), rolling stock capacity has fallen...
Postdating Poet Holden's previous book of poems (Granite and Alabaster) by 16 years, Natural History, though a far more proficient book, is still alabastrine in its often semiopaque, semiprecious imagery, granitic in its acceptance of the chiseling that life seems to have handed its author...