Word: began
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first the inhabitants voted down these offers, were apathetic to this attempt to lift the general level of living of the whole community. But gradually the Foundation saw to it that the schools acquired toilets and electric lights, better instruction and medical attention, and in general the darkened communities began to grow bright, cheerful and happier...
...Thompson found several Dun & Bradstreet reports in the company files showing W. W. Smith to be a worldwide trading company with assets of between $6,000,000 and $7,000,000. Suspicious Mr. Thompson went to Dun & Bradstreet and was told the reports were forgeries. Next Mr. Thompson began checking up on W. W. Smith and on another Montreal firm, Manning & Co., which seemed to be "a sort of fiscal agent, a sort of a fiscal agent in the English sense, a sort of a banking firm." Manning's Montreal staff consisted of a female secretary...
Chapter 5. By the fourth day of the case possible missing assets had grown to $18,000,000-$10,000,000 in inventories and $8,000,000 in accounts receivable. Five investigations began-by the SEC, Department of Justice, U. S. Treasury, New York State Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr., and New York County District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey. Mr. Bennett got started first, sent a man to Canada to try to find some warehouses...
...late Roland M. Smythe began buying old Southern bonds that were considered worthless. But some of them proved valuable. In 1904 he published Smythe's Valuable Extinct Securities Guide. Last week Otto Peretz Schwarzschild, who bought the business in 1930, brought the guide up to date. Listed were 5,500 such extinct securities as those of Amethyst Mining Co., Kowkash Holdings, Ltd., Unique Operating Co. Announced Mr. Schwarzschild: "While the activities of the SEC have curtailed the output of sour securities, it will be a long time before the obsolete security business faces extinction...
...books of 1929 is that in those brash days even Wall Street believed limited editions a good thing. Once only millionaires and professional bibliophiles collected first editions. By the late 20s, however, even plain readers were buying a few, just as they bought a few stocks. And even printers began publishing de luxe editions. Of the whole lot, only two de luxe publishers survived Depression I: George Macy's Limited Editions Club, and Eugene Virginius Connett Ill's Derrydale Press...