Word: bond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Penn early in his match but lost his advantage and was thrown by his opponent in 7:53. Al Richter in the 135-pound position also dropped a decision in the last few minutes, while Dick Lindenfelse in the 145-pound class never threatened the supremacy of Paul Bond, losing also by decision...
...threat resulted in the calling of a referendum on a $550,000 bond issue to raise salaries, repair buildings, hire more teachers. To vote in San Antonio, however, citizens must be on the tax rolls, declare property valued at $10 or more. This presented a problem to the city's low-paid teachers, who own little besides personal possessions. The resourceful teachers solved the problem, however, by hastening to declare the personal property that tax-dodging citizens ordinarily do not list. Blonde, comely Lee Ray Chandler listed her cello. Janitor C. C. Woodward declared his cow. Teacher...
...strolled to a window, signaled four detectives waiting outside. With a rush, Amundsen & men separated the dogs and arrested all present. The garage operator and dog owners were liable under State law to $1,100 fine or a year in jail or both; the watchers were released on bond. At week's end, after tender care by Missouri Humane Society's Veterinarian Carl Brenner, both dogs were in fine fettle, but were being held for probable asphyxiation-that they might never have to fight again...
Bill Douglas had reason to be pleased, for United has been almost as big a stumbling block in hi's program of utility simplification as Electric Bond & Share. United not only is one of the biggest utility holding companies but it is the utility operator's conception of a beneficent holding company. It exercises no control over the operations of its subsidiaries, its function is wholly financial. In an industry where it is necessary to invest about $6 to do $1 worth of business (U. S. utilities last year had total gross sales...
...Deal disapproves of this on the ground that the system of subsidiary operating companies, pyramided to a peak in Wall Street, provides an irresistible chance to overcapitalize at the expense of stockholder and consumer. Hence, while Electric Bond & Share"undertook a major court battle against the holding company "death sentence," United presented seven successive plans to SEC, all designed to enable it to continue to exist in the form of an investment trust. Having turned all the plans down, SEC anticipated few friendly overtures. When these suddenly came from Mr. Whitney about the time that Franklin Roosevelt declared a truce...