Word: dition
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until he was elected chairman of Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railway last April. No railroad man, he spent two months inspecting nearly every mile of Katy's 4,956-mile system, meeting division agents, studying freight problems. Last week Katy gave "Matt" Sloan the post of president in ad dition to his chairmanship. The presidency has been vacant since the resignation last April of Michael Harrison Cahill...
...would suggest, therefore, that it would be in order for your board to declare a quarterly dividend equal to 20% annually. . . . Please be good enough to promptly confirm this arrangement. . . ." And its reply: "As you are aware, a dividend of this amount has not been earned. In ad dition to that, the trust company is setting up no reserves and we feel that it is not as it should be." Mr. Pecora: Don't you think that your suggestions for a dividend rate for the units were looked upon as an order from the throne? Mr. Lord: I assumed...
...leisure. Then comes restlessness. He walks the streets, goes home to pace his floor, bite his nails, throw things at his wife. Gradually this energy wears itself out. He stops shaving, becomes dirty, slovenly, sodden. He looks at the world out of dull, defeated eyes. For this con dition psychologists have a new term : un employment shock...