Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Emperor Jones is no tyrant. Mr. Shanks's principals got a fair shake too: for each old $1,000 bond, a $500 general mortgage bond, $500 in new Class A stock, four shares of common and $35 in cash (as back interest on each new $1,000 bond). Mr. Steere's stockholders of course got nothing, but since C. & O. owned other C. & E. I. securities, it will wind up with 12% of the new voting stock (16% if its bonds are converted)-the largest single voting block. For continuity's sake the reorganizers also left Charles...
Chairman of their meeting was Thomas McKay, 27. Graduated from college at 20, Thomas chose an unpromising vocation-selling bonds in Wall Street in 1933. He made up to $100 a week at it, soon got bored, went to sea as an ordinary seaman. By last week he was back at bond selling, had got an M.A. (in economics) and was studying nights for a Ph.D. Also present: Mrs. Helen Whitebook, radio writer, Jeanne Weiss, secretary...
Priest Mayer and Pastor Niemoller see each other occasionally in the courtyard, have become good friends. Their friendship is symbolic of a new bond which is growing between Protestants and Catholics throughout the Reich, where heretofore the two creeds have been divided as in few other lands by bloody memories of the Thirty Years' War. When 30 Confessional pastors were arrested in Prussia, slender, steel-nerved, aristocratic Count Konrad von Preysing, Roman Catholic Bishop of Berlin, directed that prayers for their safety be offered in every church of his diocese...
Retailers even expanded their plants. In Manhattan, on the site of Flo Ziegfield's first Follies, the Bond clothing chain opened its 60th men's store (largest in the U. S.), set in motion a 26,000-suit assembly line. Same week, in Portland, Ore., Fred Meyer opened his tenth "unit" (which sells everything from groceries to Opening" that included cake-baking contests, daily vaudville, dog shows, a Ferris wheel, a free suckling pig, and eight performing lions, Merchandiser Meyer attracted 100,000 visitors in six days...
...August the San Antonio subsidiary decided to refund a $16,500,000 bond issue at a lower (3½%) rate. To merchandise the issue, it contacted another Mellon family unit-Mellon Securities Corp...