Word: stocking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Paris, a court seized 100 shares of Suez Canal Company stock owned by crafty Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels-who had been regularly receiving interest through the Banque Generate du Luxembourg...
...they do hackneyed and worn-out means of expression--should cause any indignation to people of a college community. This small minority will always exist in any large group, but there is no reason to infer that a majority or any semblance of a majority within the University takes stock in this horse-play...
...collateral for the loan was also an A. G. & E. Co. security-its own Class A stock, of which Associated Securities was a large stockholder...
...profit from practically every pass. One method was simply to sell the debentures back to an A. G. & E. Co. affiliate at 100, which meant a $40 profit on every $1,000. Another arose from the fact that the debentures carried warrants to purchase A. G. & E. Co. stock. While the debentures were in ASECO's (or PUI's) hands, these warrants would be detached and exercised below the then market price. By such sleight of hand, Hopson's companies are said in the indictment to have made more than...
...other in the face with loose planks. Grant liked tumbling. At 17 he tumbled into Manhattan, found it harder to tumble into vaudeville. So he became a Coney Island barker, did stilt walking, other odd jobs. Later he had a tumbling act of his own, still later played in stock in London. Oscar Hammerstein took Grant back to Manhattan where he worked (for five years at $350 to $550 a week) in Hammerstein musicals and for the Shuberts when they bought up his contract. Soon he was talking shop with, playing the piano for, Richard Rodgers, Moss Hart, Werner Janssen...