Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disheartened young actor who had pounded Manhattan's pavements far oftener than he had trod its boards saw some kids swapping candy for marbles, and got an idea. Thereupon young Robert Porterfield, with fire in his eye, a dollar in his pocket and 21 famished actors in his wake, went back where he came from, to Abingdon in the Virginia mountains. There he opened a summer theatre, offering tickets for 35? in cash or the equivalent in barter...
...greatest salesman since Barnum turned up this weekend in the form of an enterprising Sophomore who sold memberships in the Harvard Varsity Club to an unknown number of Freshmen for the piddling sum of one dollar...
...rate of $8 a share), yields 10%." How nice. But in the course of my usual search in the back pages of the magazine for reading material among the advertisements, I come across the following notice: "The directors of Chrysler Corporation have declared a dividend of one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) per share on the outstanding common stock, payable September 13, 1939. . . ." I am a novice at economic matters, and I am confused. ARTHUR B. LOGAN Parkersburg, West...
...just trying to be forehanded," Henry Morgenthau explained, as he made an announcement that wakened memories of 1917: the appointment of the first dollar-a-year-men of World War II. They were three bankers: able, affable Tom K. Smith, 57, of St. Louis, a distinguished veteran of the Liberty Loan campaigns in 1917-19, who in 1939 is to be "a sort of coordinator of all banking problems for the Treasury"; Warren Randolph Burgess, 50, of Manhattan's National City Bank, a military statistician during World War I, recalled to duty last week as an expert on Government...
...rail bonds, going at $2 and up, are unlikely to become worth 100 cents on the dollar with the best of war booms. But on the gamble that they would be worth something or that the Government might take over and pay 30-40? on the dollar, speculators dived in. The Dow-Jones average of rail bonds climbed 32.5%, the New Haven's defaulted 4½s of 1967 from 12 to 15⅞ (32.3%), Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific's 55 of 1975 from...