Word: units
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though officers in the Naval Science unit will not be appointed until December, total enrollment figures as released Saturday list 200 students. The Holyoke Street office has rejected many candidates because of stiffer physical requirements this year and also because a neighborhood...
...tickled Syracuse's pride, assured bi-partisan applause on his progress through the city's streets by bundling delighted Mayor Marvin into the back seat of his automobile between himself and Governor Lehman. Proceeding to Syracuse University to lay the cornerstone of a new College of Medicine unit, he praised local initiative, deftly reminded his listeners that the new building had been made possible by an $825,000 PWA grant, smilingly observed that he had laid many a cornerstone in the past and that so far as he knew none of the structures had yet collapsed...
Notwithstanding all the country's automobiles, buses, trucks, airlines, pipelines, waterways, lake and ocean shipping, the freight car remains the basic unit in U. S. transportation. And the number of freight cars loaded weekly by the U. S. railroad system remains a basic business index. When the railroads load less than 500,000 freight cars per week the country is depressed. When they load more than 1,000,000 a boom is in full flower. A few years ago when railroad finance looked its worst, statisticians used to put their feet on their desks and say that there...
...Since 1929 Atlas has bought 22 investment trusts, sold two. Last week President Odlum announced the last step in a corporate simplification program which will leave Atlas a single $110,000,000 unit. To be consolidated with the parent company are the three remaining subsidiary trusts, Shenandoah Corp., Sterling Securities Corp. and Pacific Eastern Corp., once called Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. At the same time two outside directors will be taken on the Atlas board, Sears, Roebuck & Co.'s Robert E. Wood and United Fruit Co.'s Samuel Zemurray, for other news of whom...
...unit was formed in 1906 prospered swiftly with the expanding U. S. motor industry. By the time it fell into the clutches of the Alien Property Custodian in 1917 it was an exceedingly valuable piece of property with a plant of its own in Springfield, Mass. For nearly a decade the U. S. company was in almost continuous litigation arising in part from the unsavory record of the Alien Property Custodian's office, in part from the re-entry of Robert Bosch into the U. S. market under his own name after the War. Legal question...