Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Babsonic market recommendations. A long silent sage, John Moody, late last week predicted the break was over, that 1930 would provide a slow rising market with small volume, easy money. A broken sage was Charles Amos Dice, famed market student, who early in October published New Levels in the Stock Market, showing prices would fluctuate around the then current prices, never dropping below the Dow Jones average...
...about the course of individual fortunes. Paper losses of such stockholders as George Fisher Baker and Andrew William Mellon were estimated. On the other hand it was known that the State of New York had profited from the heavy transactions. A tax of 2¢ a share on no par stock and 2¢ per $100 of value on par stock, netted New York $4,884,427 in October. Thus can the state build better roads, broader bridges to bear the increasing traffic of U. S. prosperity...
Mandeville, Brooks & Chaffee, Providence, R. I., brokerage house, the first Manhattan Stock Exchange member to go under in the recent crash, was last week suspended by the Stock Exchange for inability to meet its obligations. Liabilities...
...President Lee Wilder Maxwell announced that Farm & Fireside would have its face lifted and be given a new suit of clothes. Beginning with the February 1930 issue it will appear as The Country Home, with the same page size but with new type, new paper of high-grade magazine stock, new contents. Farm & Fireside (circulation: 1,354,000) is a farm magazine. Reincarnated it will be "a magazine of home, garden and farm...
Scheme No. 1 concerned the Bankers' Capital Corp. which recently failed, attributing its collapse to low levels of bank stocks. Investigation indicated that Bankers' Capital, instead of dealing in bank stocks, formed affiliated companies, buying stock in one and then selling it at a profit to another. In turn the affiliates used their resources to support the market in Bankers' Capital stock. From this procession of intramural deals Bankers' Capital last year earned enough to pay a special dividend of $17 a share ($2,000,000). Outstanding stock of Bankers' Capital and affiliated companies came...