Word: busied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...estimated 25% of such U. S. thrift plans from selling shares without prospectuses or with misleading information. Last week the sixth thrift plan enjoined by SEC, Lexington Foundation Inc., consented to a permanent injunction without admitting guilt.* Lexington, whose contracts total about $16,000,000, may continue in busi ness so long as it is careful to issue prospectuses which make clear such facts as that from the first $100 which an investor pays, some $70 is deducted for a service charge...
...classical beauty, but she and Teddy were ever so distressed and annoyed when they were held one year by the Italian border customs officials. Those sillies thought M and Teddy were smugglers, and filled with jewels. M was positively haughty and finally got their release. . . . But now, this abdication busi ness. Teddy doesn't think much about that or anything, M, though, says, 'Kings do things...
...annual sales of $400,000,000. That was only about 1% of last year's total retail sales in the U. S.. but enough to cause Printers' Ink to note : "If co-ops are to be viewed with alarm as poaching on the preserves of private busi ness, there is plenty of room for alarm...
Grown from an old Spanish settlement, San Antonio (pop. 232,000) is the New Orleans of Texas. Though surrounding oil & gas have turned it into a bustling busi ness city, its large and picturesque Mexican quarter, its lovely old Catholic missions, the remains of the ancient Spanish Governor's Palace still give it a hot Latin charm. Through its streets crowd soldiers from Fort Sam Houston, cadets and officers from the Army's nearby aviation fields - Brooks, Kelly and Randolph ("West Point...
...profits of silver speculators; 3) the requirement that Government licenses must be secured to import or export silver. The effect of these laws enacted in 1934 was to pre vent speculation in silver in the U. S., put the silver futures market out of busi ness, leave the Treasury in complete control of the U. S. silver situation. Since Mr. Morgenthau had not exercised that control to suit the silver bloc, it was content to reopen the silver market, give con trol back to the speculators...