Word: bond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Gordon Baking Co. announced without explanation that, come March 24, Silvercup would no longer ride with the Lone Ranger. But no sooner had the Gordon company dismounted than General Baking Co. (Bond Bread) arranged to hitch on beginning March 27 over 14 MBS stations, four others...
...daily newspapers at home and abroad, they are licensed as trade names to 53 manufacturers of everything from banks to bubble gum. So his horse will hardly be renamed. The Ranger will have to find some other way of making children pester their mothers to switch from Silvercup to Bond bread...
...fact that, before a car is bought, a truckload of goods is shipped, a bridge built, money usually changes hands. Working from weekly bank statements, Mr. Skinner has evolved a number of formulas for watching this financial ebb & flow as it relates to various factors such as stock prices, bond prices, commodity prices, etc. TIME applies this same method not as a measure of business volume but of business' financial soundness-i.e., an Index of Business Conditions. The resulting Index differs radically from the several specialized indexes Mr. Skinner has developed for his own weekly service to clients...
...sold enough Cities Service stock to buy a $1,000 Liberty bond to post for his freedom. After long proceedings, delayed by the Communist Party's interpolating that it did not now advocate overthrowing the U. S. Government, and by Poland's protesting that it did not want Joe because he was originally Austrian (the village of his birth was obliterated by the World War), a warrant for his deportation which had been issued in August 1934 became effective as of January 1937. Joe hired a lawyer to appeal his case in U. S. Circuit Court...
...January 1930, a swindler named Clarence Charles Hatry stood at the bar of London's Old Bailey, heard himself convicted of "one of the most appalling frauds which ever disfigured the commercial reputation of this country." The collapse of Promoter Hatry's $10,000,000 forged bond bubble in September 1929 had sapped confidence in The City, helped to precipitate the U. S. stockmarket crash, and hastened worldwide Depression. Hatry was sentenced to 14 years in prison, two -of them at hard labor. Last week, having served nine years of his sentence and having impressed Home Secretary...