Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Publisher Paul Block D.C.S...
...Stocks. Morgan & Co. does not float common stocks, seldom preferred stocks, but when it arranges the financing of companies there are often common stocks to be sold. In such cases it may buy a block of common shares, which it gets at wholesale price, may make a handsome profit, for as in the case of Standard Brands (see p. 58) when the wholesale price is $32 a share, and the opening market price is over $40 a share, there is a paper profit of $8 a share to begin with. Of the block of shares purchased part may be resold...
...false statements, which wrote the final chapter in the Match King's career. Sosthenes Behn declared he would cancel the deal, asked for his money back. He has yet to see it. So he kept the Ericsson stock, which gave him a 20% voting interest. It was this block which, subject to the approval of the Swedish Government, was last week increased...
...block on I Street N. W. used to be one of Washington's most social. Nicholas Longworth brought his bride there; Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes still lives nearby in a red brick house. The Friends' Meeting House, one of three where Herbert Hoover worshipped, has been there 125 years, and beside it are two red brick dwellings which house the Friends' School. Other Washington schools are more progressive, more expensive, but none is more sedately aristocratic than Friends', a nonsectarian, co-educational kindergarten-through-high school for which social as well as financial references...
...home sick. When County Coroner Curtis, substituting as auctioneer for recently deceased County Sheriff O. J. Tweten, put the customary question, "Is there any objection to conducting this sale?" 300 barnyard voices bellowed "Yes!" Coroner Curtis promptly granted a 30-day stay of sale, stepped down from the block as the crowd cheered. Then up stepped Preacher Flint and cried to the farmers: "Most preachers teach us we shall eat pie by and by in the sky but here's a preacher who thinks we should have...