Word: yardsticks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Yale comes to this race on the whole an untried unit. Rough water on Lake Cayuga called off the Cornell race which might have proved quite valuable as a yardstick for judging the New Haven boat. In its two races, Yale came from behind in the first to beat out a powerful Syracuse boat at the finish line. In the other, over the short Henley distance of a mile and five-sixteenths at Philadelphia, the Eli oarsmen turned in a very weak and unpromising race, finishing third behind Columbia and Penn...
When the wind which enabled the Varsity to smash all records on the Severn last Saturday was also responsible for the cancellation of the Carnegle Cup race between Princeton Cornell, and Yale, it deprived Tom Bolles of a valuable yardstick with which to judge the-relative merits of this year's Ithacan crew. Notoriously late starters, and in addition riddled by sickness this year, the Cornell crew has so far this spring rowed two losing races, one to Navy, which last week chased Captain Sherm Gray's boat across the finish line, and one to Syracuse, victor over Tech last...
...shareholders, their stock quotations did not. At week's end U. S. Steel sold at 62 (seven times 1940 earnings), Bethlehem at 82 (six times earnings), Jones & Laughlin at 31½ (three times earnings, depressed by $45 of arrearages on the preferred). These quotations, ludicrous by the yardstick that used to set a conservative price for common stocks at ten times earnings, reflected Wall Street's fears about the world situation, higher taxes, collapse of the defense boom. The next question investors will have to answer is: how long does a stock such as Bethlehem have to earn...
Last week earnest Mr. Reuther announced that his 500-a-day figure was only his yardstick of Detroit's potential capacity, that the automotive industry could as well make an imposing (but lesser) number of two-and four-motored bombers...
...just the same his solid, simple phrase had brought assurance of a kind; it was an old-fashioned Yankee yardstick. Franklin Roosevelt might be morally right in saying that the silly, foolish dollar sign must be taken off aid-to-Britain, but Jesse Jones touched an old American feeling that there is righteousness in sound business...