Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must prepare not only for the summer but for the winter, not only for 1941 but for 1942, when the war will, I trust, take a different form from the defensive in which it has hitherto been bound...
...world, trotters have raced under lights for more than a decade. Well aware that "bosses" run as well if not better in the cool of the evening (several world's records have been broken at Toledo), the country's leading stable owners last week were willing to trust their pets to a track sanctioned by their fellow owner, Socialite Elbridge T. Gerry, Chairman of New York's Harness Racing Commission, and backed by such upright citizens as Socialites Robert G. Johnson, J. Averell Clark, William G. Curran...
Died. James Handasyd (pronounced han'-da-side) Perkins, 64, chairman of the board of the National City Bank of New York, chairman of the board of the City Bank Farmers Trust Co.; of a heart attack; in Mount Kisco, N. Y. In World War I Harvardman Perkins was awarded the American Distinguished Service Medal, officership in the Legion of Honor, a commandership in the Order of the Crown of Belgium...
...Government is like a crippled octopus that cannot quite coordinate all its arms. Many of these arms last week were struggling with the vast problem of rearming the U. S. One, however, found time to buck the trend. The Department of Justice fired an anti-trust suit at a defense industry: Pullman, Inc., a holding company; subsidiary Pullman Co., owner and operator of virtually all U. S. sleeping cars; and subsidiary Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co., No. 1 U. S. freight and sleeping car maker...
...popular and publicity success, the New York World's Fair of 1939 was a financial flop. By midseason, exhibitors and merchants holding $28,000,000 of its 4% debentures had forced out overconfident Grover Whalen, put Banker Harvey Dow Gibson (Manufacturers Trust Co.) in charge of the books. In September, to help the Fair pay its bills, bondholders had to sacrifice their 40% lien on the gate receipts. During 1939, the bonds dropped from...