Word: bond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilmott Lewis, Washington correspondent for the London Times, addressing the Bond Club of New York, declared: "It was very much like the old story of the four men who were endeavoring to lift a grand piano into a truck and were unable to do it. When the fifth man came along, the fifth man did what the four could...
Friar Tuck is proud that his little church is called the "Poets' and Artists' Church." Its walls are lined with paintings, sculpture, poets' manuscripts (including those of Edwin Markham, Carrie Jacobs Bond...
...Scarcely were the new bonds sold when war-scare this week sent them and the rest of the Government bond market reeling in a full-fledged break of ⅞ of a point...
Until the World War the public debt of the U. S. never exceeded $2,500,000,000. But by 1919 the liability side of the U. S. ledger carried a then-stupendous total of $25,000,000,000-and Wall Street had a lucrative new field, trading in Government bonds. First kingpin in this field was Charles Frederick Childs, who sold his business in 1928 after flinty Andrew Mellon's slashing of the public debt by $10,000,000,000 slashed the turnover in "Governments." Although Trader Childs bought back his firm when Depression I brought a new tide...
...Texas the same day, President John W. Carpenter of Texas Power & Light, an affiliate of huge Electric Bond & Share Co., penned a similar letter to the Lower Colorado River Authority, TVA of the Southwest. Allegedly sponsoring flood control, LCRA has urged a number of municipalities along the Colorado River to build their own power plants with PWA aid. Texas Power & Light has 1,277 miles of power line serving 13,200 customers in this Texas area, which is as big as Massachusetts and Connecticut combined. Last week, President Carpenter offered to sell this chunk of his system to LCRA, saying...