Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...canny, close-knit, tight-lipped clan are the Browns but Depression in the paper & pulp industry was too much for even them. Though they carefully kept all common stock within the family, both preferred stock and bonds were sold to the public. Preferred dividends were stopped in 1931 but despite a series of deficits footing up to more than $14,000,000 in four years, bond interest was paid promptly. Last week, however, with "deepest regret," the Browns announced that they would have to default their obligations. They admitted that business was better in the first half of this year...
Just how sturdy a foundation the Constitution's framers intended to lay for the Federal Government is a question which has been puzzling Supreme Court Justices for 146 years. Air-tight was the wall of secrecy with which the Constitutional Convention delegates surrounded their deliberations. In Philadelphia one summer day in 1787 a delegate chanced on a lost copy of the propositions then pending before the Convention, quickly turned it over to the presiding officer, General George Washington. At the close of the day's session that hot-tempered hero up-rose before the delegates, sternly declared...
...Kondylis asked Premier Tsaldaris what to do in an urgent long-distance call. "Do!" the Premier sputtered at the Marshal. "Why, raise the strikers' pay!" After 4,000 general revolutionary strikers had had their pay upped 15%, Crete subsided in the news, leaving seven dead, 50 wounded, censorship tight...
...which totaled approximately $1,200,000, are Board Chairman Henry Holiday Timken and his brother, Vice President William R. Timken who, on the basis of their last SEC report on stockholdings will receive nearly $200,000. Timken Roller Bearing is essentially a family business and the Timkens are a tight-lipped family. The company was founded as a carriage works in the last century by Henry Timken, onetime blacksmith. Founder Timken thought carriages dull the moment he began experimenting with cup and cone ball bearings. His enthusiasm infected his two sons when the huge possibilities of the automobile bearing market...
...Detroit, after he had lost $2,000 in Government bonds at a revival service, the Rev. William H. Grain said. "I can't understand it. I had them tucked away in my sock, with the bottom of my long underwear pulled down tight over the sock. Mind you, though, I don't suspect any of the brethren...