Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early this year Merrill, Lynch & Co. sold their branch offices to E. A. Pierce & Co., became specialists in chain stores. Last week they compiled the results of 52 chain store companies for last month and for the first nine months of the year. During September total sales were $310,535,660, a 4.16% decline. For all 52 chains, nine month sales came to $2,904,181,652, a 1.65 gain. Nine-month returns for the biggest 23 were...
...Prince & Whitely, Manhattan brokers, opened a branch office in the old Hotel Willard, Washington, D. C., engaged the first private wire from the Capitol to Manhattan. On July 2, 1881, this wire was used to flash word of President James A. Garfield's assassination, giving Prince & Whitely clients an advantageous time margin in the market shock which followed. At that time the firm was three years old. Since then it has survived many a severe depression including at least six actual stockmarket panics. Last week it failed. Almost coincidentally a "New Economic Theory" seemed to sweep the emotions of volatile...
...only the U. S. markets felt the repercussions of the failure of this 52-year-old firm with membership on the Exchange, Curb, Chicago Exchange and Curb, and the Cleveland Exchange, with seven branch offices, with about 9,000 customers and collateral loans estimated at $35,000,000. News of the failure shocked London, where Prince & Whitely did a large arbitrage business, was said to be interested in International Nickel and Brazilian Traction. This, added to the failure of two small London houses, sent prices reeling in that market. It was likewise a blow to Paris. Said La Liberté: "This...
...Literary Editrix Irita Van Doren of the New York Herald Tribune. Author Van Doren has always liked Swift, has been trying for years to find time to do a book about him. Other books: The Life of Thomas Love Peacock, The American Novel, The Roving Critic, Many Minds, James Branch Cabell...
...student branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers has been established in the Harvard Engineering School, with the following officers...