Word: backe
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Bethany, Mo., Raymond King learned with disappointment that it was a girl, when he had wanted a boy. "I'll go back and get you one," said the doctor. An hour later King had his son-a twin...
Despite the production boom, stock prices never have climbed back to the level from which the Lowlands Blitzkrieg toppled them last May. Thus many a shareholder had paper losses this month on stocks bought before the May collapse. To deduct them from his 1940 taxable income, he had to sell the shares, turn his paper losses into real ones. He then could deduct his short-term losses (on securities held less than 18 months) from short-term profits taken on other transactions this year, carry any net loss over to deduct from next year's short-term profits...
Unable to hit on a permanent occupation, Boltz made a quick comeback by marrying Hazel Huckel, daughter of a prosperous Germantown architect who soon died, leaving his daughter $100,000. With his wife's money, Boltz went back to school-this time to study law at the University of Pennsylvania. He lived in a big house in the old part of town on the Main Line, had a law practice of sinecures tossed his way by friendly bankers and fellow Academy and Penn men. He founded the Juristic Society, an exclusive little legal and social group. Religious, he became...
...weary veteran of U. S. railroading is the bankrupt, 108-year-old Erie. In her gilded years she fell in with bad company-flamboyant Jim Fisk, piratical Jay Gould, pious Daniel Drew. Together they manipulated her back and forth from bonanza to bankruptcy, got her known as the "Scarlet Lady of Wall Street." Exhausted, the Erie had collapsed three times by 1895. Then she reformed. Under Van Sweringen control, she became a respectably operated road. But her capital structure never really recovered from Jay Gould's attentions, and she never again paid a dividend on the common...
...talking fashions under the auspices of CBS's Columbia Artists, Inc. She also had a profitable sideline in selling her tour wardrobe designs to U. S. dress manufacturers (at $600 apiece plus 7% of the sales). By last week, as she was preparing to Clipper back to France, members of the U. S. haute couture were boiling mad. They were maddest at her continued insistence that the U. S. was too money-conscious to originate its own fashion trends, that Paris, ruled by the Nazis, still ruled the world of fashion...