Word: prospectus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last month Postmaster-General Walter Folger Brown, perusing a roseate stock-selling prospectus of the United States Lines, opined that no fostering was needed, withheld its mail contracts. Last week Mr. Brown, finding mail bids of the Mississippi Shipping Co. and other Shipping Board fleet buyers higher than those of competitors, again held back. He begged President Hoover to direct him to reject all pending mail contracts until Congress could decide whether the lagniappe should actually go to Shipping Board buyers, or whether, now that the fleets were sold, the contracts might not be given to lowest bidders as required...
...still the Hudson was unbridged, and still the North River Bridge Co. was more a prospectus than a performance. Furthermore, the Pennsylvania R. R., now snugly located in Manhattan, could not well be expected to take interest in additional bridges. And Builder Lindenthal and his associates were growing old. Undiscouraged, however, he continued with his plans. After the conclusion of the War, he suggested that an admirable War Memorial would be a bridge across the Hudson, but this suggestion met with no great approval. Some six years ago, when even New York's City Fathers had begun to catch...
...terms of good round figures. Under Durant direction, Buick stock salesmen went from door to door, sold stock to farmers, schoolteachers, clerks, widows, to any who would buy. And for once, at least, hardly any promise could have been made too glowing for the future performance, hardly any prospectus could have been phrased in too superlative terms. Able, persuasive, Durant raised for Buick more than $1,000,000. Now (1906) there was a good time coming, but not for David Buick. There arose arguments, disputes, misunderstandings. After three years as general manager. Mr. Buick left the company he had founded...
Course. Issuing last week its schedule for the spring term, the University of California listed a new course-Appreciation of the Photoplay. "Recognizing," said a prospectus, "the influence of the screen story and the photo drama as important in the cultural development of the country, and believing that photoplays should be considered in any serious historical and scientific study of art and sociology . . . the University will soon offer the degree of Bachelor of Science in Cinematography...
Under the title "Utopia College: A Prospectus" Dean Hibbard of the University of North Carolina pictures in the current number of the Outlook and Independent his conception of what the ideal college should be. First he pays tribute to the experiments in progressive education now being conducted along various lines at Harvard, Wisconsin, Swarthmore, and other institutions, which are to a considerable extent embodied in his own plan. The prime purpose of Utopia College is the avowed one of all modern universities; namely, to stimulate intelligent thinking. In pursuit of this fundamental end, however, Dean Hibbard proposes a radical innovation...