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...sound and healthy part. While textile mills have failed, textile selling houses, or converters, have been showing profits. Notable among successful converters is the Cohn-Hall-Marx Co. (Manhattan) which increased its yearly (fiscal) earnings from $4.21 a share in 1927 to $6.47 in 1928. At its head is slick Lawrence Marx, whose most colorful achievement was the sale, last summer, of 30,000 shares of common stock. On the New York Curb, the stock was rising from a low of 23½ to around 50. But most of the company's outstanding 100,000 shares were...
...prolific are the mills of the paper companies that the supply always exceeds the demand. Last spring, mills were operating at only 84.4% of capacity. An artificial combine to keep the price of newsprint at $65 a ton collapsed when some members of the combine made a slick deal with Publisher William Randolph Hearst. A price-cutting war followed...
...waived a warrant, issued in 1925, for the arrest of Herbert Clark Hoover. Charge: motoring with glaring headlights. ¶In West Branch, Iowa, a Mrs. Addie Clark showed a newsgatherer a scrawled schoolday note in her album: "To Addie: "Let your days be days of peas, "Slip along as slick as greese...
...with the blood of that worst of offenders, one who had struck a woman. And when later Lacy pitched himself into the free-for-all cattle wars of wide-open Arizona, his deserving victims fell thick and fast. Hettie's family, innocent immigrants to Arizona, had engaged a slick cattle thief as foreman of their ranch, and their cattle losses were climbing to the tens of thousands when Lacy, posed as a rustler himself, smartly unearthed the plots of rustling outfits, and plugged the treacherous foreman full of justice. Then Lacy found that Hettie held for him "that strange...
...Fields and Chester Conklin are the protagonists in "Fools for Luck", the Paramount comedy at the Metropolitan is week. The team performs much as usual in a picture based on the adventures of a slick promoter who comes to a small town with a get rich quick scheme. A grip full of oil stock, the beautiful daughter of Huntersville's leading citizen, small town life de luxe, all these things are mixed up in a rather ordinary film which has a few lsolated laughs and moments of spirited action...