Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fifty years later Lumberman George T. Webb heard about these pines, took a look, last September bought up the stock of the Rugby Land Co. for $15,000. Soon his loggers began to fell the timber on the outskirts of the tract, getting closer & closer to the little village, until one pine crashed across the church fence. Aroused, tree lovers, historians, librarians of Tennessee, the few surviving Rugbyans protested. To their appeal for help, Congressman Bruce Barton of New York, who was born nine 'miles from Rugby, wired earnestly but distantly: "Only God can make a tree...
...Journal outfit cost Publisher Cox $1,943,685 in cold cash (for a 70% interest), plus an agreement to pay $761,400 more for the remaining 30% of its stock. For the Georgian, he gave Hearst $800,000, of which $300,000 was for good will. So Mr. Cox's Atlanta purchases cost him a total of approximately $3,500,000. To Cleveland Financier M. Smith Davis, for negotiating 1939's biggest newspaper deal, went a commission of over...
...business will be down from fourth quarter 1939, but it appeared that one cushion which may pad the fall might be auto production. The fourth quarter of the calendar year is first quarter of the auto model year, a time when auto manufacturers justifiably overproduce in order to stock dealers. Overproduction of 200,000 cars would average less than five cars apiece for each of U. S.'s 41,698 dealers. Beginning of autumn, production ran at full blast. Last week it assembled 117,805 cars (against 102,905 last year). But Chrysler Corp., after its 54-day strike...
...reason for this is that in September 1935 Standard failed to finance repayment of a $24,650,000 note issue, landed in a reorganization proceeding in a Delaware Federal District Court. Charges (among others) by Senator Robert Wagner's Law Partner Simon H. Rifkind that: a stock deal with Standard netted Byllesby $5,000,000 on a $500 investment; an operating company purchase by Byllesby for $845,000 was sold four days later to Standard for $1.365,000, caused the court to appoint special counsel to investigate the Byllesby management. Result: a recommendation for a $100,000,000 stockholders...
...Spoiled Children has for heroine a Paris Stock Exchange broker's daughter, Agnes Boussardel, who ups and goes to the University of California. There she loves a 200% American with Indian blood, leads the fast, far-weekending, Sierra-smitten life of the Golden West. Back in France she finds her family stuffy, marries her cousin, learns that her family when pressed can raise considerable hell...