Word: parents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small coincidence, deftly nurtured, came to the lovers' aid. The hag fell in love with the ferocious parent, the runaway wife made it up with her Don, the timid heroine melted into the arms of her rescuer, and they all lived happily ever afterward...
...first-sight, a charming bit of femininity out of Jane Austen, or-remembering her ferocious father and mysterious exile at Farthing Hall-Jane Eyre. Mark had no sooner wrung from her a timid confession of love than she dismissed him, insisting that her duty lay with the ferocious parent...
...might appear that San Franciscans have already ample opportunity to play the market. So rapidly is the main Exchange growing, indeed, that Coast authorities claim it has passed Chicago and ranks as the second largest U. S. board. The Grain Trade Association, nevertheless, despite the opposition of its parent body, the Chamber of Commerce, has decided to organize an additional trading department, presumably modeled along the lines of the New York Produce Exchange...
...approve an increase in authorized common stock from some 7,500,000 to 12,500,000, thereby potentially capitalizing the company at $1,250,000,000. From new stock to be issued at terms to be fixed, cash will be received to redeem all the bonds of the parent company. Thus Steel common becomes "as good as a bond," which was the astoundingly imaginative ambition of Steel's Creator Morgan...
...producers are Kennecott and Anaconda. The Kennecott corporation is the largest copper producing organization in the world,* though the mines owned by the original Kennecott company produce less than 8% of the present production of Kennecott and its subsidiaries and associates. The two large children of the small Kennecott parent are Utah Copper Co. (Guggenheim) and Braden Copper Mines Co., located in the Province of O'Higgins, Chile. In 1927 these companies produced 235.358 tons of copper, about 13½% of the world's total production. Other companies indirectly controlled produced an additional 179,636 tons. Selling agent for Kennecott...