Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Institutions at which Common-wealth fellows studied...
...production of full length cinema operas in Italy where tenors are as plentiful as olives. There he met Producer Hal Roach. Mr. Roach has spent a great many of his 45 years in Hollywood among the custard pies of its comedy lots. There he demonstrated his possession of the common touch of producing interminable series of Our Gang pictures, in which succeeding generations of fat, freckled, good, bad, pretty and colored children were featured. Mr. Roach made a fortune out of these films but this spring he put his name on a different kind of comedy, a full-length sophisticated...
Next day while the market wavered around its low, the New York Stock Exchange, by now as puzzled as everyone else, launched an investigation into all transactions of U. S. Steel common during the previous three weeks, explaining in a questionnaire to all member firms, that it was only studying Steel as "the bellwether" of the market, not because of charges from Washington that "bear raiding" was behind the market's latest drop. Such rumors spread so swiftly, however, that the Securities & Exchange Commission dispatched a squad to Wall Street to run them down...
...delighted the audience. Said he: ". . . There is resistance [on the part of employers], not to collective bargaining per se, but to what lies behind it. Unfortunately, to many employers, it looks as if any invitation, either of labor to management or of management to labor, to sup at a common table is likely to result noc only in the disappearance of the food but also of the dishes, and in the destruction of the table as well...
...Four" (Swift, Armour, Wilson), Cudahy suffered more because most of its slaughtering houses were in the drought area and it lacks its bigger rivals' range of by-products to tide it over. In the last fiscal year ending October 1936, Cudahy made $1,815,000 or $2.65 per common share. So far this year it has paid $1.87½ per common share. In passing last week's dividend, President Edward A. Cudahy Jr. explained: "Smaller volume of raw material, together with substantial increases in wages, various additional forms of taxes and increased costs of certain supplies, contributed...