Word: halts
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...market by bidding $205 for Steel when it was at $190, this time was willing to bid the market-price $150. At this figure 25,000 shares were sold in a single $3,000,000 transaction, but even indirect evidence that J. P. Morgan & Co. was buying failed to halt the decline. When Mr. Whitney was obliged to announce the Prince & Whitely failure from the floor of the exchange, many a blue-chip sank below its 1929 bottom. Traders noted these prices...
...recovery independently of what may happen elsewhere. . . . We shall need mainly to depend upon our own strong arm for recovery as other nations are in greater difficulty than we are. . . .* We must assure a higher degree of business stability . . . any recession in American business is but a temporary halt in the prosperity of a great people...
...building was purchased by C. C. Stillman '98, who intended to present the hall to the University in the Spring of 1927, but his death in December 1926 brought a halt to negotiations...
...from across the river. Then there is the great cavity where once the Power House predominated. Instead of the two inevitable smokestacks one can see the cupola of Smith Halls, slightly tarnished and weather-beaten, perhaps, but still a distinct improvement. But it is high time to call a halt to this contemplation of Cambridge's rapid architectural metamorphosis and settle down to the duties of the coming year. With lectures to begin Wednesday there is no time to lose, for just around the corner lurk the wheels of knowledge just on the point of starting their nine month...
...Into the woods near Kroettingen he innocently disappeared with two friends. Ostensibly they had set out for a walk. When they came to a road, a car quietly pulled up alongside them. Professor Valdemaras & friends had started to get in when up sprang an alert guard, ordering them to halt. Vainly did the Professor argue that he was just going to take "a little ride in the country...