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This is nothing short of revolution in ski technique, for the first things U. S. ski masters teach neophytes are the stem turn and the stem-Christiania, executed by braking with one ski, then edging the other over. Pure "Christies" (now learned after stemming is mastered) involve no stemming, but...
Then came the businessmen: President Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck, President Gerard Swope of General Electric, Chairman Marriner Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board, President Henry C. Turner of Turner Construction Co., Banker S. Sloan Colt. When the stock-market promptly registered a hopeful advance after these conferences, it...
So A. F. of L. tried a double maneuver, appealing over the heads of the C. I. O. high command to the C. I. O. rank & file, with the idea of driving wedges between:
If the 151-ft. Statue of Liberty were laid in a coffin and floated in New York Harbor, it would be lighter and no simpler to maneuver than a timber-lagged steel tank which this week started on a 1,371-mi. trip from Jersey City, N. J. to Whiting...
All of a dither last month were San Francisco financial circles over the well-authenticated report that potent Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini had testily refused to list a new issue of Transamerica Corp. stock on the San Francisco Exchange until benign President Frank Shaughnessy resigned (TIME, Aug. 16). Since Transamerica...