Word: callings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Contrary to this belief of the London bankers, many a continental and U. S. financier expressed the opinion that while the high rate of call money persists in New York only another rise in the English rate can halt the drainage of bullion...
...Hapag" the Germans gaily call that steamship line more sedately known as Hamburg-Amerikanische-Paketfahrt-Aktien-Gesellschaft...
Last week they brooded over the startling name of Deutsche Bank and Disconto Gesellschaft and, with Teuton unanimity, decided to call it Dedi...
...paper companies which combined last week estimated their 80,000,000-cord reserve as a practically perpetual supply. The companies, long closely affiliated, were Canada Power & Paper Corp. (which recently disposed of Laurentide Power Co. for $10,800,000, and is said to have placed the money in the call market), Port Alfred Pulp and Paper Corp. (owners of the town of Port Alfred), Wayagamack Pulp and Paper Co., Ltd. (specializing in kraft [wax] wrapping paper...
...attitude suddenly gave the people at the ringside the shocking realization that he was unconscious. Later that night after Sharkey, jubilant, had gone to a nightclub with his wife, the rumor that Loughran had died of the punch on his way out of the stadium led friends to call up his manager, one Joseph Smith, who said "Oh my God, no, no, no." Sharkey claims the world's heavyweight championship, but to make his claim good must beat Max Schmeling, now resting at home in Germany...