Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until he assumes his new deanship next September 1, Landis will continue to rule the commission that he helped create when he assisted in drafting the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934--but he rules it with a hand that Wall Street tycoons acclaim as both fair and conservative...
...contains neon to start an electric arc, is so full of mercury that when the arc vaporizes the mercury, the pressure rises as high as 300 atmospheres. At the core of the mercury the temperature is 14,000° F., on the inside wall of the tube 1,800°. The lamp is served by a water cooler in which the water must be hurried along in its jacket to prevent the formation of steam bubbles. The heat given off is negligible, since the light of mercury vapor slides off the visible spectrum at the opposite side from...
...Archeological Institute of America. It was under the direction of Dr. Hetty Goldman, the Museum's Excavator in Greek Lands. Another expedition is now in the field in India, Ceylon, and Afghanistan, under Dr. Benjamin Rowland, Jr. His purpose is to photograph in color and to publish the outstanding wall paintings in the cave chapels, an original undertaking whose results will be eagerly awaited by all Orientalists...
...backgrounds of the major regions. Two illustrated lectures will be given on Wednesday, February 10, the first at 4 o'clock on "Three Chinese Communities", and the second at 8 o'clock on "The Chinese-Mongolian Borderlands". In the latter Professor Cressey will discuss the conflict around the great wall between nomad and agriculturist, and current political developments in the land where China, Japan, and Russia meet...
First Boston's reports are interesting to a far wider group than its 9,500 stockholders. Now that Ferdinand Pecora and the Senate Committee on Banking & Currency are occupied with other things than Wall Street, First Boston's figures are the primest clue to banking house profits. In 1936 First Boston took in $7.348.000 from underwriting and trading operations, another $1,253,000 from interest and dividends, $229.000 from commission, service charges and miscellaneous sources. General expenses were...