Word: cautionings
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...have tried to provide you with a popular angle, but there is obviously a point beyond which the scientists will not go. We have provided caution signals where we believe extreme care should be taken...
...report on insiders' stock trading showed that one of General Motors' unbeatable Fisher Brothers, Lawrence P., sold no less than 11,000 shares of G. M. in September, when the market was higher than it has been since. From G. M. itself also came a note of caution: Yellow Truck, its almost wholly owned subsidiary, has enough business to carry it through June 1940, had been set to pay off its $14-a-share preferred dividend arrearage. Instead, the G. M. management drew in its horns, paid only half...
...first a supporter of Woodrow Wilson, he grew scornful of the President's caution, eventually warned his readers: "Beneath the veneering of scholarly polish lies the coiled serpent of unscrupulous ambition." After rich Judge Robert Worth Bingham bought the paper in 1918 and supported the League of Nations (". . . inevitably Woodrow Wilson would be caught by such a whimsy . . .") Marse Henry quit in disgust. He died a few years later...
...spite of the arrival of the biggest buyers the U. S. has seen in a generation there are relatively few war orders to date whose actual existence can be confirmed. World War II is a war of caution and just as France and Britain got together and agreed to correlate purchases to keep from bidding against each other, so they have been cautious in other ways. Mindful that this time purchases in the U. S. are for cash, which has to be laid on the barrel-head, they are shopping carefully. For the same reason Britain is buying everything...
Index Down. Indicating a further decline in war-boom enthusiasm, TIME's Index of Business Conditions this week dropped from 100.8 to 99.4 (94.2 year ago). The smallness of last week's rise in commercial loans reflected business caution...