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When Prohibition ended many a U. S. investor believed that soft drink corporations like Coca-Cola would suffer, while companies making ginger ale and carbonated water as "mixings" would greatly benefit. Last week this belief was definitely exploded when Coca-Cola common marched into a new all-time high of $200 a share and Canada Dry Ginger Ale sank to a two-year low of $8.75. Canada Dry's directors had cut the quarterly dividend from 25? to 10? a share. White Rock Mineral Springs Co. sold off to a three-year low the week before when its directors...
...Little Snow Princess' is her favorite title," reported a doting correspondent of United Press, "because she adores winter sports. She has ash-blonde hair, a Cupid's bow mouth, the heavy eyelids of a dreamer, wide, dark, unplucked eyebrows, and a soft round face. Her eyes change from sea green to deep blue according to her mood. She is tall and slim and carries her clothes well. Her reserved manner has a regal touch about it and she is probably at her best in court dress. She is an ardent horsewoman, automobilist, swimmer, tennis player, dancer, well trained...
...Lastly and perhaps most important at the moment, Mr. Morgenthau apparently hoped to give a fillip to the Treasury's $2,378,000,000 refunding program, launched last fortnight. Public response to the exchange offers has been slow. If any headlines could harden a soft Government bond market, none would be better than REDUCTION OF PUBLIC DEBT. Day after the announcement Government bonds declined...
...November Sunday no one gave flowers. Here was a problem. . . . It was met by bringing an armful of white pine branches from the country. In each vase of soft feathery green were inserted a few branches of brilliant autumn leaves. The effect was 'different,' and caused much favorable comment. The symbolism was rather nice...
...country churches Mrs. Sloan approves garden flowers and even such wild growths as "soft brown cattails (shellacked to preserve their deep color), grasses and such delights as the brown cottony seed pods of the fireweed, the cloudy blue bayberry, or the brilliant scarlet berries of the black alder...