Word: buying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...insured only against damage claims by public utility companies which were left to stand on their constitutional rights and sue in court when the flood control work does them harm. A half-victory by the Coolidge men was the provision that for floodways the U. S. shall buy not actual acreage but "flowage rights" across the land where necessary. This provision cut untold sums from flood-control's ultimate cost, said the Coolidge men, who suspected lumber and railroad companies of plotting to sell their valley lands at exorbitant prices...
Associated Press. Two resolutions were adopted: 1) to extend special voting rights and protest rights to the entire A. P. membership of 1,200 newspapers; 2) to float a new bond issue of $500,000, of which no member can buy more than $1,000 worth...
...Seymour N. Sears Jr., 22, of Grantwood, N. J., "floor" telephone clerk for Miller, Hewitt & Dodge, brokers, became a partner of that firm and at the same time a member of the Exchange (the youngest so distinguished). Seats on the Exchange are currently worth $395,000. Young men who "buy" them at such prices raise the money by bonding themselves and insuring their lives in favor of their creditors, and give private noi.es for the sum. Since a pronouncement by the Exchange management last week, under certain conditions they can also mortgage their membership. To pay back the purchase money...
Worth struggling for has been the field - China with 400,000,000 people, East Indies with 50,000,000, India with 318,000,000. Everywhere Standard Oil was first. In China, to get natives to buy kerosene, Standard salesmen sold lamps for less than a song, for a cheep as inebriates of Singapore used to say. Mei Fooy is the Chinese name for Standard Oil. Shouting Mei Fooy out loudly once saved the life of Lucy Aldrich, John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s sister-in-law, when in 1923 Chinese bandits captured her. It was the only phrase she knew...
...flank and to boom up Royal Dutch-Shell goodwill throughout the British and Dutch possessions, Sir Henri has been shouting harsh things about Russian petroleum. That oil comes from wells once owned in part by British investors but now confiscated by the Soviet. Standard Oil has been buying it to sell in the East, where it has few wells, but where Royal Dutch-Shell has many. It is more profitable to Standard Oil to ship petroleum from Russia to India than from California to India. Sir Henri, therefore, has been crying loudly that Russian oil is "stolen" and that Standard...