Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Evangelism. "The real spirit of evangelism is not a spirit of conquest, of going out and winning souls as trophies, but of going out to share with others the values we have found real and enduring...
...filled part of its echoing, long-empty car sheds with $21,500,000 in tank orders, which (along with nearly $30,000,000 of shells, armor plate, etc.) almost put its common back into the black. American Locomotive got $38,000,000 of Army orders, paid off $5 a share on preferred arrears. Even Pullman, ever faithful to the rails, took on some arms work. If defense traffic sends the roads into the equipment market next year, they will find a crowd ahead of them...
...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...
...camp holds some 1,000 British civilians caught by the Nazis in the Low Countries, Scandinavia, France, on the high seas. Wodehouse is one of a group of 60 who share a long dormitory with double-decker bunks. They are allowed to use the high-walled prison yard at any time. But they must eat, sleep, get up by military schedule. Food is reported to be the same ration given German civilians-one course of stew with bread on the side. There is hot water daily, but baths only every ten days. Prisoners have only the clothes they brought along...
...wartime finance, it is wrong to think of compensation for damaged property as a liability that 'the State' . . . can assume or not as it chooses. In wartime the State is the community and the community is the State. . . . The only question is whether [the loss] shall be shared equitably or inequitably. The decision has now been taken to share it equitably...