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...Bethlehem was very successful in keping down costs, and on its entire program of 86 vessels built under that form of contract it effected savings below the estimated costs aggregating about $30,000,000 of which about $16,000,000 inured to the benefit of the Government and $14,000,000 increased Bethlehem's profits...
...future performances would be limited to concert engagements. Last week, after a concert in Kansas City, she divulged to pressmen that she, now 64, would sing again at the Metropolitan. Director Gatti-Casazza, she prettily confessed, had heard a recent recital of hers in Manhattan, forthwith offered her a contract for the season of 1925-26. Said...
Last week, the U. S. Supreme Court killed it. The venerable Justice Van Devanter wrote the decision: "Such a system infringes the liberty of contract and rights of property guaranteed by the due process of law clause of the 14th Amendment." [A citizen shall not be deprived of "life, liberty, or property without due process...
...whole transaction of buying and reselling the Dodge business has been one of the most rapid in the history of investment banking, especially when the magnitude of the operation is recalled. Within a week, the old concern was purchased under an intricate contract, the new Company was chartered, the form of its capitalization and details as to its several securities determined, a selling syndicate of about 1,000 firms all over the country organized and a prospectus published. In addition, elaborate statistics had to be furnished to several Blue Sky Commissions. The bankers handled the whole deal from Manhattan...
...little disc of flexible metal. When an iron or percolator gets too hot, crick! will go the disc, convex like a bubble, and cut off the current. When the iron cools, crack! concave like a saucer, and the current will go on again. Two metals in the disc contract and expand with the temperature, but unequally, causing the disc to warp, crick . . . crack...