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...kind of breathless anxiety that certain definite results had to be achieved on a particular day. There had to be x million men at work by Labor Day. There had to be x million more by the New Year. . . . Even the Dictatorships, where everything is done so lickety-split. have allowed themselves, in the case of Russia, five years, in the case of Germany, four years...
...Teagle and Sococal's Kingsbury gave no explanation, but it was an open secret that the immediate cause was failure to agree on terms. Oil men thought, however, that a more potent reason for abandoning the deal was the question of price-fixing, which had not only split wide open the oil industry but the happy Standard family as well. Mr. Teagle is price-fixing's ablest and loudest foe. Mr. Kingsbury is one of the Administration's heartiest supporters...
...illustrate both tendencies. Some of them: A horse-faced trained nurse keeps her long upper lip brightly firm while she takes contemptuous kindness as if it were not contempt. A cast-off inamorata soliloquizes in a taxi. Friends of the family are puzzled when a Perfect Couple, long married, split up for the valid but private reasons that he cannot stand her long fingernails, she his audible yawns. A wife from whose life the glory has departed clings to her faith in the glamour of actresses-and then meets one. Neatest job of the lot: "Here We Are," a dialog...
...Brazilian and Bolivian bonds now in default, Dillon, Read and their associates had made $6,000,000 gross. One issue of Rio de Janeiro bonds bought by Dillon, Read at 89 was sold to the public at $97.75, the spread of 8¾ points being split three ways as commission between Dillon. Read as underwriters, the distributing syndicate and the retailers. One bond issue was floated in 1922. for the electrification of the Brazilian state railways, which have never been electrified. Some $5,000,000 from a bond issue was used by Bolivia in 1928 to pay a two-year...
...Directors of National Distillers Products Corp., No. 1 U. S. whiskey company, voted to split its stock 3-for-1-first major stock split of the New Deal. Leader of the summer bull market in alcohol stocks, National Distillers skyrocketed from $16 a share early this year to a high of $124, sold last week at $104. Among the large holders were the David A. Schulte interests which sold their Overholt and Large distilleries to National Distillers last June for $600,000 cash and 102,000 shares of common stock...