Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Less handsomely, Berlin's 12 Uhr Blatt declared: "Max had to fight three opponents: Louis, advancing age and certain unfair machinations. If Max did not succeed, it was not because there is a better boxer than he, not because Louis is a superman. For two years Schmeling had to wait for a fight which was denied him against all the rules of fairness and sportsmanship...
When Barbara was twelve years old, she inherited nearly $20,000,000 of the fortune which her rugged grandfather had amassed from his 5-&-10? stores. Barbara's pile grew under her broker father's careful management. At the age of 21 she could write her check for $45,000,000. In 1930, in the teeth of Depression I, her fond father arranged a coming out party costing $60,000. Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton hotel was decorated with birch trees cut down and then covered with branches of fresh green leaves shipped to New York from California...
Tobacco inventories are bought three years in advance so they can age properly and thus they require a sizable investment. Philip Morris at first got such working capital by borrowing, not by floating securities. But inevitably, as its inventories swelled to a $20,000,000 figure, bank loans became too cumbersome, particularly on top of the $700,000 expense of building a slick new factory, opened last month. So last week with its 519,151 shares of common selling at $95 (on earnings of $10.91 last year, current dividends so far for this year of $5.25)-with its English Blend...
Soda Water to Shanghai. Otway Hebron Chalkley, born in Richmond some 50 years ago (he is even bashful about his exact age), was the only child of a prosperous, respected leather merchant. In Richmond he is remembered now as an expert player of bandy (a form of hockey), a proficient swimmer in the local holes-which go by such picturesque names as Soda Water, Cherry, Heaven, Hell-and a sober student. From school he went to work as an office boy for American Tobacco Co. at $3 a week, began a standard up-through-the-ranks career-factory manager...
Hendrik August Wilhelm Deterding, third son of a Dutch sailor, went into an Amsterdam bank at the age of 16 and fell in love with figures, quit after six years because banking was too slow a way up in the world. He went to the East Indies, worked for the Netherlands Trading Society in Deli, Medan and Penang, learned how to make money for the Society, and quit to make money for himself. His next job was with a man named J. B. A. Kessler, who was head of a small concern with a large name, which was: The Royal...