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Collateral. Packard Motor Car Co., which split its stock 5-for-1 in 1929 when it sold above 160, was ready to reverse the procedure. President George T. Christopher announced that he would ask stockholders to turn in their stock, on a basis of either i share for 5, or i for 3. It would make Packard, now selling below 5, more respectable and more acceptable as collateral...
...Piccadilly one day, a giant (6 ft. 4 in.) California javelin thrower named Butch Likins decided to improve on the ineffective way a pushcart peddler hawked his peaches. Butch took over. His basso-profundo split the damp London air: "Ripe, juicy, California peaches! Buy your peaches here." When the fruit was sold Butch turned the money over to the peddler, said, "Now, that's the way they sell peaches in California...
Along China's turgid riverbanks gongs were ringing. Their summons brought villagers running through the wet darkness, crying: "Chiu ming! Chiu ming!" (Save life! Save life!). Pale lightning flickered and thunderclaps split the sky as men, women & children labored with spade, hoe and hands to pile even higher the earthen ramparts of the river dikes. Downriver, other watchmen, gongs in hand, their silhouettes reflected by torchlight, anxiously measured the rising flood crest. Then they, too, beat their booming summons in the night...
...Having Any." The reason why African development had been neither quick nor extensive was the split political personality of the Labor Party. As sincere anti-imperialists, the British Laborites wanted to give the natives more self-government and to raise native living standards; but as the responsible trustees of Britain's property, the Laborites could not risk inexperienced native mismanagement of vast enterprises. Result: Labor's slogans encouraged native nationalist demands which Labor's policy could not fully satisfy...
Patton before a race. The split second the gun goes off, all this pent-up emotion explodes...