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...factories for making textiles, paper, chemicals, machinery, pottery, cement, rayon. What coal those plants can get in Japan is of poor grade; what coal they can get by import is expensive. So they turn for power to electricity. And the Tokyo Electric Light Co. supplies it. No wonder, remarks Wall Street, the company has paid dividends every one of its 42 years of existence and had $45.344,701 gross revenue last year...
Like them both in law, business and peerage is Kengo Mori, financial adviser to the company. He is well and respectfully known as a financial genius in Wall Street, The City (London), the Place de la Bourse (Paris). He was the Japanese financial commissioner in the three countries for more than a decade...
...most "important position in the world" as the croaking orators repeatedly informed them, the delegates were sheep-like if sincere in their tumultuous acclamation of Hoover. But the unusual choice of a defeated presidential possibility for vice president in the good fellow Curtis, and the amalgamation of Wall Street and the wheat growers by this happy union, may well dismay the brown derbied tiger as he passes out his slogan banded cigars...
...whom were now chosen, would come to among themselves. The votes of 545 would settle the matter, but with many a delegate unpledged, many another uncertain, many another unaccredited, the result could not be figured out to a mathematical certainty on paper. Last week's odds in Wall Street were...
Clarence Dillon and Walter Percy Chrysler were eating lunch at a Manhattan club, some four miles from Wall Street, May made fair weather outdoors. Mr. Dillon had just returned from one of his frequent idlings in Europe (this was three weeks ago) and looked almost robust...