Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haven & Hartford, Baltimore & Ohio and New York Central. Lips sealed, the railroaders emerged from the President's office looking glum and anxious. Next day, having arranged a compromise between Messrs. Dawes & Meyer for rail relief, the President cheerfully announced: 1) The roads' financial problem is "of smaller dimensions than has been generally believed or reported." 2) Between three and four hundred millions, and not a billion, will be required to help them through the year. 3) Of this, Railway Credit Corp. will supply a minimum of $50,000,000.* 4) "It is assumed that many bank loans will...
...American Game Association wanted a $1 Federal hunting license ("Dollars for Ducks"). The More Game Birds in America Foundation favored a 1? tax on shells ("Pennies for Ducks"). Outvoted by an arbitration committee, the Game Association last week was prepared to support the 1? tax plan. So were several smaller organizations, Outdoor Life and other magazines...
...speakers and invited students. This is the most successful method of entertainment that has been provided. Several Tea Dances have been given after football games and a large formal dance is now being planned with Adams House before the Easter vacation. Since Leverett is one of the smaller units, accommodating only two hundred and thirty-seven students, co-operation with Adams House for the dance is most convenient...
...zoning law has influenced the direction of modern architecture. By making set-backs from the street at certain heights in crowded districts of the city in order to provide air and sunlight in the streets and for smaller buildings, a new shape has been imposed upon architects. But even with this restriction, the space left cannot be completely utilized since the pile must continue to taper to satisfy the eye. The American Radiator Building which is built of black brick rises to a height of 200 feet where a gilded tower, illuminated at night, seems to float in a hazy...
...Kreuger's efforts and its rise paralleled his own. Sweden's match industry began in the latter part of the 19th Century. Small factories sprang up all over the country. In 1903 a merger of many of the companies formed Vulcan Match Manufacturing Co. which began to force the smaller companies out. In 1907 Ivar Kreuger, then 27, arrived in Stockholm after several years spent in the U. S. as a construction engineer. (He built Syracuse University's Stadium.) He and Paul Toll formed Kreuger & Toll Co. to do engineering work, but in a few years the company's function...