Word: transition
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vast amount of legal work connected with originating and distributing securities open up a broad field of opportunity for skillful corporation lawyers. In face, many of the leading figures in investment banking began as lawyers. The transit and country departments handle the transactions with other U. S. banks; coupon collection takes care of sending notices of payments due on notes; the candidate spends two weeks in each of these
Astronomers last week were having learned fun with the transit of Mercury-the first in 13 years. When the small broiled planet (seared on one side, cold on the other) passes across the face of the sun, it always leaves a flurry of problems...
...transit itself was not spectacular, for planets are insignificant on the solar scale. Mercury looked like a grain of bird shot creeping across a pie. What interested the astronomers was the timing of Mercury's appearance. It never keeps appointments exactly, and they have learned a great deal by figuring out what makes it early or late for a date...
...Massachusetts legislature is considering a bill which provides for the state to assume the operating deficit of the MTA. The proposal, filed by Representative Kahales of Boston on Monday, would have the state treasury contribute to the transit company "a sum as may be necessary to pay their deficit...
...Government graders. He does not know the grading for sure until after he has bought the meat. If the steer is "choice," he will make a 2?-a-lb. profit; if it grades "good," he may lose about 4?. But even the carcass (shrunk to 653 Ibs. in transit) is not all salable at the 42½? a Ib. the butcher pays for it. Two-thirds is hamburger and other low-priced meats that the butcher must sell for less than his cost; nearly one-fourth is bone, suet and fat, which must be stripped from the carcass, and brings...