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Word: deale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deal is of vital importance to Warner Brothers. They were the pioneers in the production of sound-pictures, which this year have given a new spurt to the U. S. amusement industry. But Warner Brothers have had very few houses of their own. While their sound picture rival, Fox Film (with Movietone) has customers in the allied Fox Theatres, Warner Brothers have been obliged to depend upon the demand, insistent although it was, of strange and jealous exhibitors. With Stanley Co. it can stand shoulder to shoulder with other great amusement sellers− Paramount-Famous-Lasky, Loew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Cinema | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

Such an amateur did overhear, last week, part of a conversation between the "biggest" National City Bank and its Berlin agent. The conversation concerned another famed banking house, Brown Bros., with which National City was linked in a German financing deal. From the eavesdropping amateur there came to Brown Bros, a transcript of the talk. Brown Bros, did not like the National City talk. Puzzled, Brown Bros, asked explanations. National City, astonished, gave them. Still friends, still associates, the two banks resolved upon more cautious, coded communications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Eavesdropper | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...indifferent as to which company would buy technical control of the other and create a half billion dollar utility merger. Chiefly because of a complicated financial set up United Light and Power, last week, became the buyer. The Koppers (Mellon Associates) and Cyrus Stephen Eaton of Cleveland pushed the deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Index: Sep. 17, 1928 | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...commodity exchange is started without opposition. Importers fear professional gamblers, with no interest in the industry, seeking only new fields for speculation. Such fears have postponed, perhaps indefinitely, plans for a jute and burlap exchange. But an exchange to deal in metals futures is scheduled to open about Nov. 1. And last week, at Albany, papers of incorporation were filed for the National Cotton Exchange, to compete with the 57-year-old New York Cotton Exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Gamblers in Silk | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...Rufus Crosby, James W.) have been operating the system, with Herbert F. Hall, chairman of their directorate. The Kempers found a buyer in the Santa Fé. The Santa Fé offered $14,507,500, or $414 a share. Last week the I. C. C. approved the happy deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Orient | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

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