Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shots were fired at Premier N. Pashitch as he was entering his car in front of the Narodna Skupshtina (National Assembly). The Premier saved his life by falling to the floor of the car, but was wounded in the hand...
...receipt by the New York Stock Exchange of an application from the Stutz Motor Car Co. of America to have its 263,000 shares restored to trading on its floor brings vivid memories of the circumstances in 1920 under which Stutz was " stricken from the list" of the Exchange. After a decline in motor shares in February, 1920, Allan A. Ryan cornered the Stutz stock. Its price rose swiftly to 391 on March 31, 1921, when the Exchange authorities, having ascertained the existence of the " corner," suspended dealings in it there. After various conferences between Mr. Ryan and the Exchange...
Forth from the White House followed by innumerable attendants, Mr. and Mrs. Warren G. Harding set out on a 1,500 mile journey to Alaska and return. A seven car train, with a specially built car, the Superb, embodying a rear platform rostrum, and a reception room, and a communication department completely equipped for telephone, telegraph and radio communication, carried the President's party...
...United States might be said to be the richest man in the country. It is also said (and probably truly) that in respect to his own private purse he is the third richest man in the United States. He is a power in the oil business, the steel car business and the aluminum business. Yet, as E. G. Lowry (Editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger) once said: "He looks like a tired double-entry bookkeeper who is afraid of losing...
...Prairie Pipe Line Co., Solar Refining Co., South Penn. Oil Co., Penn-Mex Fuel Co., South West Pennsylvania Pipe Line Co., Southern Pipe Line Co., the Standard Oil Companies of California, Indiana, Kansas,. Kentucky, Nebraska, New Jersey, Louisiana, New York and Ohio, Swan & Finch Co., Union Tank Car Co., Vacuum Oil Co; and the Washington Oil Co. The combined capitalization of these companies is $957,843,750, but as it has until very recently been the policy of Standard Oil to undercapitalize, its actual resources are considerably in excess of this sum. Within the last few months there has been...