Word: assets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both of these, Capra, as the company's strongest financial asset, has been a more than acceptable substitute. A genial, stocky, 41-year-old son of Sicilian immigrants, he has twice won the top honors of his profession, the Motion Picture Academy's Award for It Happened One Night in 1935, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town in 1936. Last year, after a prolonged dispute in which he charged Columbia with breach of contract, their differences were composed on a basis that pays Capra roughly $350,000 a year. He has personally created or vastly improved half-a-dozen...
...Most famed Wall Street success during Depression I was that of Atlas Corp., Floyd Odium's tremendous investment trust. How Atlas is faring in Depression II showed last week in its semi-annual report.. Between Oct. 31, 1937, and April 30, 1938, Atlas' net assets dropped from $71,229,929 to $56,565,662, its common stock's asset value, from $13.36 to $9.44 per share...
Defendants' method of capture, as described by Mr. Ballantine, more or less boiled down to these three main points: 1) Control of an investment trust called First Income Trading Corp. was bought with money borrowed from Paine, Webber and repaid from First Income's own assets. 2) Control of Continental was bought from the Schroder bank by the same methods, but in an involved transaction between a) an Ontario enterprise known as Fiscal Management Company Limited, b) First Income, c) Continental, d) Schroder, e) Paine, Webber. 3) Control of Reynolds was bought from the Reynolds family...
Your paper a decided asset to the above mentioned business [radio script, continuity, production]. Clear, concise, telling all there is to tell without mouthing the damn stuff...
Another serious deficiency of the general Freshman course of study is that the method of study, the most valuable asset to be acquired at Harvard, is not learned until the Sophomore or Junior year. Whether because they are regarded as too young, or because research is held incompatible with general study, Freshman may be in good standing in June without knowing how to write a footnote or identify a primary source...