Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successful issuer, from the Government of the U. S. down, has had the experience of seeing its issues quoted above the issue price while the offering is still open. ... It is not the practice of responsible bankers and dealers in pricing a new equity issue to charge all the traffic will bear-it would be inexcusable to do so in an inflation market such as prevailed...
...they added one more element: they bought into the Missouri Pacific. This road took them into new territory across the Mississippi, suggested the idea of a transcontinental system. This idea they vigorously deny, saying that their object was to obtain diversification in their investment, to obtain a road whose traffic, unlike that of the eastern roads, is not largely dependent upon coal. Today the MOP, in receivership, is the cat & dog of their holdings, while the C. & O., a coal road, which continues to pay dividends, is their paragon...
...race when bricks were re-laid at Gateway Leap, the name of the bump on the southwest turn. Re-paving failed to eliminate the bump. Drivers say the track is getting rougher. Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, oldtime race driver who manages the Speedway, says it is smoothing out from yearly traffic. The Automobile Club of Michigan last week called for a change: "Three deaths this year are ample proof. . . . These drivers were fully qualified. Their cars were checked as fit for the grind at high speed. . . . The races should be stopped or the track should be subjected to scientific engineering reconstruction...
...Collier has also enjoyed speeding past traffic cops in Manhattan. This he was enabled to do when John F. Hylan, then Mayor of New York, appointed him special deputy police commissioner, to launch an advertising campaign against street accidents. He invented Aunty J. Walker, a miniature policewoman with a night stick and fetching bonnet, and put her in the corner of his posters to admonish pedestrians to stop jay walking...
...living now in the midst of the Great Depression and amid the rumors of another was hovering over Europe and over the world. They illustrate the paradox hat the youngest generation is the oldest in the way of the funded experience of the race. They will have no traffic with the exploded efficacy of war as a way to end ware. They have read too much recent history and lived too much in the midst of it to believe so easily in either the efficacious or the virtues of the martial spirit. It may be true, as it is often...