Word: stocking
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo continues to perform these stock items in excellent style. Here and there, throughout the evening, one may become aware of stiffness in a leading dancer or faulty timing by someone in an ensemble, but above these imperfections there is always the enjoyment of beautiful ballet, tastefully and skillfully performed...
...Milne ?88,810, with total prison sentences to run 52 years if fines are unpaid. They were the stiffest sentences ever meted out in South Africa for such crimes. But Erleigh was not crushed. He appealed the verdict and published advertisements in the Johannesburg newspapers touting his new stock promotion, "Union Gold & Base Metals Corp...
...same period of 1949). When A.T. & T. held its annual stockholders' meeting in Manhattan a few days later, one stockholder said he was worried lest the good earnings and the $9 dividend rate become a target for government regulatory bodies. Why didn't A.T. & T. split its stock three for one, he asked, and thus change the dividend to $3 a share...
...Wilson had a ready answer. In 14 years of dealing with regulatory bodies, he said, he had never heard a criticism of the $9 rate and as far as he was concerned there would be no change. Why, asked another stockholder, does A.T. & T. raise new capital by selling stock instead of floating bonds? Wilson won a ripple of applause as he answered: "The company is ... a stockholders' institution and not a mortgage debt institution which would finally mean that we would run to the Reconstruction Finance Corp. or some other Government agency to bail...
Wrote Jones to the subcommittee: "I think [RFC] should be given a decent burial, lock, stock & barrel. None of the emergency conditions which prompted [its] creation exists today. When the Government finances business, it is competing with private enterprise from which it gets much of its income. When it finances improvident business, it takes from the profits of competing business, gets no taxes from the improvident, and loses on its loan...