Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corporation system of today and the resulting security markets is a wonderful gambling institution and Americans enjoy it," declared Dr. Ezekiel in an address to an assembly of Government concentrators in the Winthrop Junior Common Room last night...
...unique significance in the field of English letters there can be no doubt. Its phraseology has become part and parcel of our common tongue--bone of its bone and flesh of its flesh. Its rhythms and cadences, its turns of speech, its familiar imagery, its very words, are woven into the texture of our literature, prose and poetry alike. Yet it is of the Orient, we of the West; it is a translation, not an original; and it has reached us by way, not of one language only, but of three. What is it, then, in this translation, which...
...Government Concentrators to be held tonight, Dr. Mordecai J. B. Ezekiel, chief economic adviser J. B. Ezekiel, chief economic advisor to the Secretary of Agriculture, will speak on "The Changing Place of Government in American Economic Life." The assembly will begin at 8 o'clock in the Junior Common Room of Winthrop House...
Following the stockholders' meeting fortnight ago Walgreen directors voted a 50% stock dividend on common-with the current $2 dividend rate to continue. Previous stock dividends: 1921 (100%); 1922 (8%); 1923 (split ten for one); 1923 (16%); 1924 (16%); 1925 (16%); 1927 (split ten for one); 1934 (5%). Drugman Walgreen & family own nearly one-fourth of the common stock. Says Charles Walgreen: "There are no fixed rules for business success. I was not possessed with a vision that permitted me to foresee the developments that followed. It just happened...
Nearly 700,000 stockholders were pleased last week by a letter they received from Walter Sherman Gifford. As president of their American Telephone & Telegraph Co. he was able to tell them that in 1936 their company had earned full dividends on its common stock for the first time in five years. Since 1930 this $5,000,000,000 enterprise has maintained its $9 annual dividend only by dipping freely into surplus. The number of Bell telephones in service dropped from a peak of 15,500,000 in 1930 to 12,700,000 in 1933, earnings from $12.57 per share...