Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real value of Middle West stock remained a blank mystery. Some subsidiaries were earning, some losing money. The job of drawing up a consolidated financial statement was described by its officers as "nearly impossible." President Green had estimated that net income for 1936 would be more than $1,000,000 or better than 30? a share on the common stock, the new company's sole capitalization. The temptation to make and stake a guess on Middle West's real value last week proved too much for two Chicago brokers...
...they could without going insolvent "to give the plan a chance." Premier Aberhart and Cabinet decided to accept part of their salaries in prosperity certificates. First Alberta community approached by the Premier to put his scheme into action was Medicine Hat, to whose civic treasury he offered, 2,800 blank velocity dollars for $1.900 cash...
...bald man shut his eyes, pulled the lanyard. Boom went a 17-in. cannon. Boom, Boom, Boom it went again, each time almost knocking the little cannoneer off his feet. Sixteen rifles in the hands of 16 U. S. Coast Guardsmen and infantry fired a volley of 16 blank cartridges and the 1812 Overture of Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky crashed to its close with the familiar progressions of the old Imperial Russian anthem...
...years ago when Mr. Odium was scuttling about with a fistful of blank checks buying foreign power properties for Electric Bond & Share, such a message might have needed amplification to determine just what deal he had closed. Last week there was no room for doubt. The No. 1 U. S. investment truster had gone to London for the specific purpose of giving British capital an opportunity to repatriate a great British power company...
...newly appointed by Generalissimo Chiang as "Pacification Commissioner." First pacified were the patriotic editors of Canton who were still shrieking for war against Japan. Censors carefully rejected everything which might possibly offend Japan, but did permit the Canton editors to issue their papers with reams and reams of blank columns. These sufficiently suggested to alert Chinese readers the scorching, trenchant and clarion calls to 450,000,000 Chinese to rise against 97,000,000 Japanese which would have appeared if only they had not been left...