Word: betweens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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For so many months so many people had saved money and borrowed money and borrowed on their borrowings to possess themselves of the little pieces of paper by virtue of which they became partners in U. S. Industry. Now they were trying to get rid of them even more frantically...
That nearly every stock was at bargain prices by any modern economic standard was best shown by the fact that very soundest stocks were selling at ten times current earnings and many a stock such as that of the General Motors Corp. reached a point where it was only five...
Such stocks as American Telephone, Baltimore & Ohio, Canadian Pacific, New York Central, Standard Oil of New Jersey, U. S. Steel, Westinghouse, all sold at some time to yield between 4% and 6%.
Most expensive of flowers is, of course, the orchid, for which collectors have sometimes paid as much as $5,000 a plant. In the tropics orchids are found as brilliant patches of color at the top of high peaks or hidden in luxurious forests. In northern climates their reproduction and...
To Selected Industries, Inc., whose holdings include a substantial interest in Kraft-Phenix Cheese Co., last week's purchase was consistent with a policy of investment in standard commodities. The demand for orchids is constantly increasing, and the price has been stable. Only companies with large capital, long experience...