Word: curbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Basically the Heimwehr demanded as the only alternative to revolution, that the Austrian Constitution be amended to strengthen the authority of the Cabinet and curb the influence of the potent Socialist element in Vienna. Since a two-thirds majority in Parliament is needed to amend the Constitution and since Socialist Deputies number over one-third, their opposition has always blocked all such amendments. Last week the Heimwehr's truculent Reichspost-official mouthpiece of the strongest man in Austria, stern, bald, beak-nosed onetime Chancellor Ignaz Seipel-proposed a bullying solution of the Constitutional issue: Let Parliament be convened...
...shares outstanding are listed on the New York Curb, sell around $540 compared to the 1929 high of 631, low of 530. While this is comparatively high (20 times earnings) for a closely held company with a thin market, Singer shareholders have learned not to sell, for melons have always been generous. This year cash extras of $12.50 have been given in addition to the regular annual...
...occasion was the announcement that he had become Chairman of the Board of a new Five Borough Trading Corp. (his first venture in business outside of politics). The Five Borough, fostered by Jerome B. Sullivan & Co. of the New York Curb Exchange, is to finance "small, sound, growing businesses" for the benefit of the people, to save them from losing their money to tipsters and bucketshops...
...item was a small one in the daily grist of modernism, one more merger in a merging world. It was announced that Carnation Milk Products Co., whose head office is at Oconomowoc, Wis., whose common shares (435,440 of $25 par) sell at about $48 on the New York Curb, had arranged to acquire Albers Bros. Milling Co. of Oregon. Two and one-half shares of Carnation common stock were offered for each share of Albers preferred, two shares of Carnation common for one of Albers common...
...shares sold (when as and if) on the curb last week at $92, a marked advance over the $66.66 which J. P. Morgan & Co. paid for its shares. If the option is taken, at $92, J. P. Morgan & Co.'s profits...