Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last autumn life insurance companies celebrated passing the 100 billion milestone in total policies carried, predicted the second 100 billion would be obtained in far shorter time. Indications of speedier life insurance business were contained last week in the report of 44 companies who account for 74% of total business. For 1929 they showed new paid business of $12,885,000,000-a gain of 5.4% for the year. Another gain was shown in ordinary business, which jumped 7.3% for the year, and the newly popular group insurance, while down 11.3% from record-breaking 1928, was still up 43.8% over...
...great an amount of investing is done by insurance companies was likewise revealed last week when New York Life Insurance Co. (third biggest) showed that during last year it invested about $184,000,000, or some $600,000 per business...
...York Stock Exchange one morning last week, shares in Fox Film Corp. suddenly began churning feverishly, jumped from 22 to 25, from 25 to 30, to 34. To account for the move there was no definite news, only a rumor that 25 attorneys had gathered in the offices of Judge Frank J. Coleman, reached a compromise that would end the difficulties of Fox Film Corp., largest company in the amusement field (TIME, Jan. 13, 27). In one respect this rumor was true. After two hours of deliberation a plan had been reached by which a new trusteeship would be appointed...
...ended the day at 27½ after a record turnover of 494,800 shares or much more than half the total outstanding (820,660 shares). To the public, his stockholders, and apparently even to his attorney, Cineman Fox's move was a surprise. Yet earlier in the week he had written a letter to stockholders which clearly showed the premise upon which he stood...
...Last week George H. Burr, Manhattan banker, bought for $3,000,000 a 40% interest in the Denver & Salt Lake. "Others are interested in this deal," admitted Banker Burr. Who the "others" might be stirred much Wall Street cogitation. Arthur Curtiss James, the Lon Chancy of rail investing, was inevitably suspected of having engineered the coup...