Word: chunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Biggest chunk of spring financing will be the Government's. Last week Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau announced the largest single offering of Government securities for cash in U. S. peacetime history-a $650,000,000 issue of long-term bonds with a 2¾% coupon and $600,000,000 in five-year 1½% notes. Demand for these was so brisk that Secretary Morgenthau was able to close his books after the first day. An additional $559,000,000 in bonds or notes were offered in exchange for an issue maturing in April, bringing the total operation...
United Aircraft made $434,635 in 1935. No comparison with 1934 is possible since United Aircraft is a chunk of old United Aircraft & Transport Corp. The chunk was broken off in the summer of 1934 after the U. S. Government objected to combination of air transport companies with makers of planes and engines. United Aircraft makes Pratt & Whitney engines, Hamilton propellers, Corsair military planes, Sikorsky amphibians. Good customer is Pan American Airways, for whom United Aircraft built the Sikorsky China Clipper flying the new transpacific route (TIME, Dec. 2). Earning 21? a share United Aircraft sold last week...
...desk by his duties, though he has not played polo since the 1933 bank moratorium. Now 42, stocky, stoutish, convivial, he romps through his work, has plenty of time for such fun as golf, tennis, visits to Pebble Beach, the snowy Sierras, Tahiti. His home is a 103-acre chunk of his father's original estate equipped with an Italian villa, swimming pool, squash courts, garage with a Cadillac and two Oldsmobiles. Son Crocker also goes in for civic virtue, helped establish the San Francisco Museum of Art, for a while helped run Californians, Inc., booster organization...
...picture is not a pretty one, honeycombed as it is with special privileges, rottenness, and graft. But the finishing touches are yet to be added. News from Washington indicates that the "veterans" (many of whom almost reached the Atlantic scaboard) are determined to slice off their last chunk of federal funds by demanding immediate payment of certificates which fall...
Leaving the White House four days before his 78th birthday, Virginia's Senator Carter Glass spied slim, boyish-looking Associated Pressman Francis Marion Stephenson reaching toward a snowpile. As quick of arm as of wit, Senator Glass picked a chunk of icy snow off the running board of his car, heaved it accurately at "Little Stevie," jumped in the car. Chortled he: "I landed a good...