Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prison authorities. Mr. Clemmer admits that leaders are often at the bottom of "conflict situations"-riots, mass demonstrations, group escapes-but finds that in the daily life of the prison the leaders are not usually troublemakers and that the objective which they and their followers have in common "is to make the time pass as agreeably and as comfortably as possible...
...railroads in the black but is the only profitable woof left in the $3,000,000,000 Van Sweringen railroad and real-estate empire's tangled warp. C. & O. is controlled by Chesapeake Corp., a holding company which owns 35% of its common stock. Chesapeake Corp. in turn is controlled by Alleghany Corp., another holding company which owns 71% of its stock. Last year, after the Vans had died, the chief backer of their declining years, Glass Tycoon George A. Ball, sold 46% of Alleghany Corp.'s common stock along with some real estate to a trio...
...Potter will shortly have another arrow in his quiver-a report soon to be released by the impartial SEC on Mr. Young's proposed simplification of the Alleghany empire. SEC records show that this plan, formulated by a group preponderantly interested in the common stock of Alleghany, would benefit the common stock at the expense of other Alleghany and Chesapeake securities, notably the Series A Alleghany preferred. The owners of the 667,539 shares of this issue (among them Donaldson Brown and Mr. & Mrs. Young) were asked to surrender the right to accumulated dividends of $33 per share...
...genuine clanger, ascribes both to carelessness. Of a failure to reach a peak, he says, ''When a party fails to get to the top of a mountain, it is usual ... to have some picturesque excuse." But in his case it was the prosaic and common reason: "inability to go any further...
...Sleep in Peace, the partners in a Yorkshire textile mill, Alfred Armistead, liberal Conservative, and Henry Hinch-liffe, conservative Liberal, are posed as two representative, conflicting types of Victorian capitalism. Their children are involved in the conflict that dissolves the partnership, are nevertheless drawn together in their common rebellion against their parents. Author Bentley makes this two-way conflict the most interesting part of her story, which otherwise runs so true to form it resembles the competent playing of a piece of music that everybody knows. Out of family conflicts, the War, Depression, the two families produce one unhappy intermarriage...