Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find as a part of your highly incandescent report on the affairs of the Chrysler Corp. the following statement: "Meanwhile, Chrysler common (currently selling under $80, paying at the rate of $8 a share), yields 10%." How nice. But in the course of my usual search in the back pages of the magazine for reading material among the advertisements, I come across the following notice: "The directors of Chrysler Corporation have declared a dividend of one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) per share on the outstanding common stock, payable September 13, 1939. . . ." I am a novice at economic matters...
...rights to 600 square miles of the Uhn San district of his sparse North Peng-Yang Province to a brilliant, Columbia City, Ind. promoter named Leigh S. J. Hunt. Three months later Li-Hsi was imprisoned, his wife assassinated by a Japanese-Korean junta. But by 1897 he was back, despotic as ever, under the advanced title of Emperor...
...Cardinal Kinsley told nuns they might wear headdresses that fitted over gas masks, recommended "a simplified form . . . consisting of: 1) an unstarched, tight-fitting cap or snugly fitting under-veil, over which the respirator could easily be adjusted, 2) a heavier outer-veil which could be pulled back over the head harness of the respirator when the latter is in use." >Canceled was the Salvation Army's farewell party in London's Earl's Court to General Evangeline Booth, for which 25,000 tickets had been sold. >At the domed Church of the Sacred Heart on Paris...
...German air raiders now are coming back, after making a wide circle. . . . I can see puffs of anti-aircraft fire...
...almost a year bright little Sidney Skolsky has been a columnist without a column. A onetime Earl Carroll press-agent and Broadway gossip, Skolsky went to Hollywood for the New York Daily News in 1934, quit three years later when he was ordered back to New York. He worked for a while for King Features Syndicate, but he and Louella Parsons disagreed on whether Garbo would marry Stokowski (Skolsky was right) and that got him in bad with Hearst. Since the fall of 1938 "the little black mouse" has been a familiar sight in Hollywood studios and night clubs...