Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...followed a mistaken course of public warnings in trying to check the 1929 stock inflation instead of adopting the recommendation of the New York Federal Reserve Bank for tipping the rediscount rate. When this rate was belatedly advanced from 5% to 6% it was admittedly insufficient to turn the tide. Though witnesses were not rude enough to say so, they implied that the fault lay largely with the foggy-headed uncertainties of Roy A. Young, the Governor of the Board...
...Turtle." The film gives an accurate account of this curious creature which makes its home, year in and out, in deep water. In the spring of each year, however, the female turtle comes ashore to lay her eggs. Along the lonely southern beaches, she crawls above tide reach, scoops a deep hole in the sand with her flippers, and lays her ten dozen or more eggs. Finally, she covers them with sand, obliterating all traces of the nest, and drags herself back to the sea. Six to eight weeks later the eggs hatch under the warm sand. The baby turtles...
Many a working man has wondered why he is laid off in hard times when his company's stockholders continue to draw fat dividends. Last month Edward F. McGrady, A. F. of L.'s Washington lobbyist, sharply suggested that Industry should reserve funds to tide over its jobless no less than to pay dividends (TIME, Jan. 5). Last week William Francis ("W. O.'') O'Neil, president of General Tire & Rubber Co. of Akron, announced a new and striking plan to pay Labor as well as Capital a dividend. In declaring a special dividend, General Tire...
...troubles was the passing of Richfield Oil Co. of California into receivership last week. The action came as no great surprise, since for many a month Richfield has frantically fought. to avert the inevitable result of big debts, no cash. Oilmen knew that Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp., Tide Water Associated Oil Co. and Union Oil Co. of California had each thought of acquiring Richfield. A solution was thought to have been reached when a big change took place in Richfield's management and William Chester McDuffie, 44, president of Pacific Western Oil, became president of Richfield. The roots...
Instructors, however, cannot be blamed for indifference to the quality of their teaching. The low pay they receive necessarily makes them look upon their work merely as something to tide them over a difficult part of their career. Their advancement depends upon their outside study, and to this they devote their efforts...