Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further evidence of G. M.'s concern for its employes, President Sloan announced that the annual distribution of stock & cash proceeds of the Corporation's employe savings plan, this year totaling $10,700,000, would be rushed. With even greater magnanimity, Vice President...
...third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. "It is not in despair that I paint you that picture. I paint it for you in hope. . . . We are determined to make every American citizen the subject of his country's interest and concern. . . . The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." Act V was not Franklin Roosevelt's drive home in an open car with a half inch of water on the floor...
European translations of Monopoly concern real-estate deals in London, Paris or Stockholm. With his Monopoly fortune, Inventor Darrow has bought a farm at Echo Lake, Pa. He leads a simple, nongregarious life, likes dozing after dinner...
...excess of $31,000,000. Actual purchaser was a group headed by Koppers Co., Eastern Gas & Fuel Associates and First Boston Corp. The presence of First Boston (see p. 52) irr what was otherwise a pure Mellon deal could be explained by the fact that that big underwriting concern plays banker to Eastern Gas & Fuel. Though the Mellons bought 236,000 of Virginian's 312,700 shares of common, they did not acquire a voting majority, the road's preferred stock (279,550 shares) also having voting rights. In point of voice in the carrier's affairs...
Eggs bought in New York and later in the West were routed to relief agencies in the flood area. Over SCC's second objective-getting retail prices down so that greater egg consumption would reduce the surplus-pre-sided the angel of publicity. Spotting government concern over eggs, the vigilant New York World-Telegram announced with three-column headlines that chain grocers whose eggs cost them 34? a dozen were selling them for 45?, making three times as much profit as they made in 1935. "There is no known method," said the World-Telegram blandly, "of forcing the chains...