Word: marched
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...duty done, Kyösti Kallio walked approvingly into the Presidential Palace to congratulate his successor. Then, while cheering Finns crowded Helsinki's streets, waving torches, singing the Finnish Army march, Porilaisten Marssi, he drove slowly off to the station, heading for retirement on his model farm in the country...
Editor Eggleston got his friend Douglas Stewart, a New Deal-hating, Wall Street economist, to put some money into Scribner's Commentator. Last March they began reorganizing it. Out went Editor Francis Rufus Bellamy, Managing Editor Fred Hamlin, other editorial associates who were unsympathetic to their new policies. So far they have not only the satisfaction of promoting isolationism, but they claim it pays-that it has doubled Commentator's circulation, reduced operating losses very comfortably...
...time the Great Lakes opened for ore traffic last March, steelmen had made their forecast of the year's demand by letting the price of ore crack (the cracker: Henry Ford) for the first time in steel history. A month later, they dropped the price of steel by $4 a ton too. Their hope was to stay above their break-even point of 55% of capacity. By November they were not only at 96% of capacity, but confronted by an unfamiliar shortage in their coke and ore supplies. They even found themselves accused of not having capacity enough...
Stock traders divide their December attention between the year-end dividend crop and their March 15 income-tax returns. Last week sales for tax purposes weighed heavily on the New York Stock Exchange, helped depress it still further...
...ever knows how many December stock transactions represent tax selling, but it was clear that many of this month's deals were made with March in mind. One day a block of 30,000 shares of New York, New Haven & Hartford was sold for $1,875 (6¼? a share), or $675 less than the seller (possibly Pennroad Corp.) had to pay in commissions and transfer taxes. Corn Products Refining Corp., which pays a $3 dividend and sold as high as $65.12 this year, went at a bargain near its eight-year...