Word: placement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jobs were found for 1,316 applicants out of the total of 2,130 undergraduate and graduate students applying for work. This record of placement was 4.5 per cent better than the year before, Mr. Duhig said...
...Quinn proposal appealed to Frank for much the same reasons. The investment trusts could take over the British stocks at a price based on their earnings, just as insurance companies buy new bond issues ("private placement"). They can sell them later, when the market is right -if they wish. Meanwhile, time being short and the route to a public offering being long, the British would have their cash at once...
...With the amount of new securities issues around one-third of the 1926-29 average, underwriters have been further bypassed by private placements. Last week came the biggest private-placement blow yet: American Tel. & Tel. sold $140,000,000 of 2¾% bonds direct to 14 insurance companies. In better times underwriters would have made about $2,800,000 from a 2-point spread on this issue. (Snubbed also were A. T. & T.'s good friends the Metropolitan and Equitable. Reason: SEC's forthcoming insurance study is expected to criticize insurance companies' interlocking directorates with companies selling...
This data has been collected over a period of some twenty years during which vocational placement has become a complete science...
...Lamermen started off with a bang in the initial canto with Vander Eb's placement, and increased their lead to 10 to 0 in the second period on a 2b-yard pass from Gus Bigwood to George Haydock and a conversion by Greely Summers...