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Then Jones studied the deal. Abruptly he announced that the coupon rate they proposed (3½%) was too high. The bankers argued to no avail. Three days before the March i deadline, an RFC underling called the Chase and said that RFC would take the whole issue. Average interest rate: just under 3.2%. To the bankers, that meant good-by to two years' work, underwriting profits up to $2,000,000. It also meant the death of an illusion about Jesse Jones...
...pork goulash, quails in aspic and goose livers. In addition I have eaten two dozen oysters and a considerable quantity of fish, ranging from smoked salmon via tuna, sardines and anchovies to an enormous Dover sole. This mountain of food was obtained with out loss of a single food coupon. ... I have watched the great as they dine -Morrison, Beaverbrook, Duff Cooper and Eden among them...
More than a year ago the New York Post, as a promotion stunt, sold albums of symphonic records, at $1.93 per set of three or four, to coupon-clipping readers...
...over his flour company to his two good-looking young sons, Pat and Mike. He also left them a sales idea that sounded sure-fire for Bible Belt sales of Hillbilly Flour: a tithe certificate with every sack. Purchasers of Hillbilly turned over the certificates to their churches as coupon shares in 10% of the profits of W. Lee O'Daniel Flour Co., reputed to have made Lee O'Daniel a comfortable fortune before he went to Austin...
...cashier's check for $100 in his mail. Soon two more checks came for two other ex-merchants of Ava: $100 for Brush Judd, $150 for Luther Story. Mr. Story did not have his glasses on when his letter came, thought at first the check was an advertising coupon and started to throw it away. In the same strange manner, a $100 check came for Mrs. Grace Singleton, whose husband died last June. Widow Singleton used the money to pay off a note at the bank, buy seed oats for her farm...