Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese. Several paces away laughing Chungking citizens lined up for chances, at 5? a throw, to try to ring the heads with evergreen wreaths. Whoever succeeded in "crowning" the puppet which represented the most important traitor of them all, Wang Ching-wei, was awarded a five-dollar National Reconstruction Bond...
...owned 11.6% of the Federal debt (in bonds), 6.7% of the State and local public debt. Paring down on railroad bond holdings, they still owned 17.4% of the $13,000,000,000 mortgage on U. S. railroads. Their share of the $13,900,000,000 public utility debt...
Promptly a Washington, D. C. police sergeant arrested Mr. Pelley. Convicted in 1935 for transgressing North Carolina's "blue sky" security law, he was charged with violating his parole. After weekending in the clink, Mr. Pelley was released under a $2,500 bond, determined to fight extradition. The Dies Committee, wiping its collective brow, was glad to hear that Mr. Pelley had been removed...
...subsidiaries. At an earnings level before interest and taxes of around $1,500,000 (about 30% above their combined earnings for 1939) I. T. & T.'s two-thirds stock interest in A. C. & R. gives it a better return than Postal bondholders, who have the larger bond interest. As for the Postal bondholders' interest in the new Postal, what they get will depend on whether the land lines can work a miracle, stay out of the red. Main obstacle: a big competitor, Western Union, has had lean years too, the amount of business (badly nicked by telephone...
...bondholders and other creditors, and will take a lot of combining and buying before any group can establish such control as Alleghany Corp. once had. Among the new stockholders ordered by ICC to change part of their loan money into risk money (in addition to RFC) : Metropolitan Life (present bond holdings: $20,627,000), Prudential ($19,761,000), Northwestern Mutual ($12,602,000), New York Life ($11,845,000), Equitable Life ($8,942,000), a J. P. Morgan & Co. syndicate (loans plus interest...