Word: formula
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earned $10 a share should be selling at $100, or ten times its earnings-per-share. In recent years this ratio has been considered extremely backward. Thus, in March, 1928, John Jacob Raskob announced that General Motors should rise to 15 times its earnings-per-share, and the "15X" formula has become generally accepted with regard to industrials. Meanwhile, however, during the November bull market, many a stock rose far beyond the "15X" valuation, reached a price which could be justified by earnings only through the expedient of discounting possible earnings for two or three years to come...
...effect, this piece, which otherwise would be unworthy of production, achieves its aim and will entertain persons who look to the Crime Club for cerebral diversion. All the action takes place aboard a dirigible, now in a com panionway, now in the observation gondola. There is a professor, a formula for synthetic leprosy, a threat against all nations, an international spy, an adventuress, a leper, etc. etc. The wreck is ably done...
...Stretch between Dunster and DeWolf Streets. The much greater length than breadth of the section is a serious problem especially as regards the more-crowded western side of the proposed rectangular Yard. Any adjustment, however, which would save the empty plot behind Gore would establish a basic formula for future progress, rapid or leisurely, toward a Yard of insured openness...
...exposed page of a blue-book he read "The significant thing in the work of Blogdenthorp is that he represents his period both in style and material." At once he recognized the English 99 1-2 formula, and knew that his intuition had been right. Beckoning his comrades to him, he seized upon the writer of the betraying words. Great was the surprise when he found it was not a human being but a mechanical man, a perfected robot. The head came off in his hands. Examining it closely, he found it contained a replaceable cylinder on which was written...
...Goodwill between nations is not a policy or a task; it is a deduction arising from a series of actions. It is not a diplomatic formula; it is an inspiration which flows from the ideals of a people-Herbert Hoover in Costa Rica...