Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calm and optimistic. The U.S., it was argued, would probably not dare impose a trade embargo. If the worst happened, Japan could prepare for it in the next six months. And early this week anti-U.S. posters appeared in Tokyo streets, announced: "Britain, America and Russia are our common enemy...
...Deal Ideas. In 1932 Wendell Willkie gave $150 to the Roosevelt campaign fund. The time came when he announced that he would like to have it back, but that was later. For Willkie and Roosevelt had quite a few ideas in common. Willkie made no attempt to hide his opinion that business had sinned in 1929 and should take its punishment. He plumped for Federal regulation of holding companies, conceded that utilities that bought Federal power should be subject to Federal regulation of rates...
...system sold 4,147,339,000 kilowatt hours in 1933. In the twelve months which ended last May 31 it sold 8,238,016,338; net for the holding company's common went from a deficit of $808,000 in 1933 to a profit...
...likely instead to make the Romans sweep away the remnants of Jewish independence, he allowed the Sanhedrin to flatter him into thinking it was his glorious duty to stop the revolutionary movement. The payment of the 30 pieces of silver shocked him, showed him that he had been a common informer. "There was one refuge left...
...rate of earnings, after fixed charges, there was $2.22 available to pay the $3 a share preferred dividend, leaving the common in the red to the tune of 78? per preferred share. In addition Trustee Wardall must decide how to fit 605,964 shares of no par preferred (valued on the books at $30,298,200) and 1,282,938 shares of $5 par common stock into the drug firm's $27,296,031 net worth. So someone must take a licking. SEC will be interested in this reorganization-its first big test of the Chandler...