Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dunster House will stage its Annual Spring Costume Party followed by a moonlight hayride, Friday ninth in the Dunster Common Room. Frank Ginley's orchestra will furnish music...
Full-grown, old-style war babies were no better off. President Eugene Grace of Bethlehem Steel (whose big Eastern shipyards are running at full capacity, have just received new orders for one battleship and two cruisers) saw his common selling at 30% below the year's high. U. S. Steel Corp. was floundering in the red. General Electric's Gerard Swope had nothing to cheer about: his April orders had failed to hold the March improvement...
...trio so unknown that no one laughed when they referred to themselves as "babes in the woods." The three: Brokers Robert R. Young and Frank B. Kolbe and a Woolworth company heir, Allan P. Kirby. Mr. Ball sold them 1,933,810 shares (43%) of the common stock in Alleghany Corp., the holding company just below Midamerica. This stock had cost Mr. Ball less than $270,000. He sold it for $4,000,000 cash, plus a $2,375,000 note payable May 5, 1939 and secured by 1,200,000 of the Alleghany shares...
...came to a terse conclusion. Thomas H. Jones, lawyer of the George & Frances Ball Foundation, called Cleveland newsmen by long distance from Muncie and announced: "Messrs. Robert R. Young and Allan P. Kirby and their associates have surrendered to the foundation the 1,200,000 shares of Alleghany Corp. common stock held as collateral for their $2,375,000 note, thus revesting to the foundation ownership of such stock." Muncie's spare, bald, 76-year-old George A. Ball was once again master of the 23,000 miles of right...
...Sanctuary of Charles Darwin" will be the subject of a free, public lecture Wednesday evening by Dr. Benjamin Spector, professor of Anatomy, Tufts College, in the Junior Common Room of Winthrop House, at 8 o'clock...