Word: groups
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Indianapolis last week went "Buffalo," their honorary president-Mrs. Lou Henry Hoover. Dressed in a natty scout uniform she posed with the delegates. When a uniformed constable attempted to marshal the posers, she cried: "Here, here! We don't want any policemen in this picture!" She instructed a group of newshawks: "Girl Scout work teaches young girls the importance of housework. You know, I think it takes just as much courage to wash dishes three times a day as it does to go out and shoot a bear." From Indianapolis she went to Bedford, Ohio where...
...rejuggling of taxation to avert an estimated $250,000,000 deficit at the end of the fiscal year (the tobacco tax, for example, being raised $40,000,000) plus a $125,000,000 "Reform Loan" to be floated (probably by Manhattan's Lee, Higginson & Co. heading an international group...
During the past decade there has been one trend in U. S. banking more pronounced than all others combined: the trend to merge, to branch, to group, all of which is essentially one trend, and all of which is exactly and naturally parallel to the developments in U. S. industry, commerce, society (FORTUNE, February). But Federal laws have opposed this trend and so, verbally...
Last week in Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, a strangely assorted crowd stood about a new bronze statue. In the group were famed financiers in custom-made clothes, old workmen whose trousers showed a bag at the knees through the newly acquired press, young mechanics with large browned hands. All of them were there to honor the late great George Westinghouse, inventor, industrialist. Many present had worked with him, had known him as "The Old Man," whose impetuous, unreasoning temper and whose wholehearted consideration were amazing contradictions. The statue, erected by Westinghouse employes and friends, memorialized the genius which, though lately overshadowed...
Soon as news of the discovery spread, people came running with money to buy the mine. One gram of radium sells to-day for from $50,000 to $70,000. A group of Canadian doctors finally succeeded in buying several hundred acres around the discovery. Headed by Dr. Gordon Earle Richards, head of the X-ray department, Toronto General Hospital, and Dr. George William Ross, they organized Ontario Radium Corp. Last year they sent samples of their ore to England. There it was refined, meeting satisfactorily all necessary tests. The doctors found that one ton of their ore yielded...