Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average, stocks were still priced at only 13 times earnings v. 21 times earnings in 1929. At 4.35%, stock yields were still better than those of high-grade bonds (2.89%), whereas in 1929 the comparison favored bonds. Dozens of stocks, e.g., American Distilling and J. I. Case, could be bought for less than 50% of their actual assets per share; scores, including such solid citizens as American Machine and Foundry and Merck, were far below their postwar highs. Though speculation was rising, it was hardly out of hand. Credit in the market, where...
...Crane, a mere "10-watt amplifier bank clerk," once brilliantly undermined a wealthy "hifi bourgeois" with a gift of a single 78-r.p.m. disk. " 'It's Dajos Bela and Salon Orchestra, been looking for it for years. The way he plays these Hungarian Dances is beyond comparison. Finally found it on my last trip to Chicago. Some allowances you may have to make, but for 1933, don't you think the sound is spacious and resonant, eh?' Of course, Crane had actually found the disk in the attic . . . and had then rubbed dust and grit into...
...comparison strongly indicates that Joe's inactivity did not hurt the antisubversion fight a bit. In fact, it probably helped...
...front of mirrors. In 1929 he was elected to Parliament for the backveld district of Waterberg, quickly established himself as an uncompromising Afrikaner Nationalist. "The Lion from the North," as he has come to be known, is apt to make intolerant old Daniel Malan seem a lamb by comparison...
...Harvard Business School the acquisition of substantive knowledge about business is an objective definitely secondary to the object of developing effectiveness in constructive thinking. In line with this view, the number of courses offered in the various functional areas of business such as finance is limited in comparison with the offerings in some other schools more concerned with imparting substantive knowledge in specialized subjects...