Word: duns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...satisfactory. The Federal Reserve report on department store sales showed them running 26% behind last year. While there was a gain over July, it was smaller than usual. The first 16 chain stores to report for August showed that they were 15.7% below last year. But last week Dun's reported a "rebound" and said that "the era of sacrifice sales of all sorts . . . either has passed entirely or is about to end." Not increased trade but increased stock exchange business however was the cause of a 3.6% gain in bank clearings during August. The country would have shown...
...telegram: "The Russian Government alone can understand you. Come to us: we will make your School.'' Irma helped with the school, stayed seven years. After Isadora's death she took to the U. S. a troupe of ten bewildered Soviet girls. The Soviet school still flourishes, the Dun can tradition is there more lively than anywhere else...
Security ownership in 1932 has been surveyed and summarized by R. G. Dun & Co. It was found that during the past two years the number of stockholders in 346 companies whose issues are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, increased 41.5% and stands now at 5,848,000. The number of these corporations having less than 2,000 stockholders has decreased from...
Before the War, Karl Barth preached in the German Reformed Church. Like his professor-father he is an eminent theologian. His theology, now called Barthianism, is pessimistic, dogmatic. It offers the dun-colored thesis that Man is immoral, selfish, bound to be an "unprofitable servant" to the end. Man achieves nothing, will be saved only by grace and belief in the "absolute otherness of God." Barthianism rejects Modernism in so far as Modernism throws out too much of the Bible, too much of God. Fundamentalism also is rejected insofar as it is hampered by the Bible...
Reporting only actual bank insolvencies, R. G. Dun & Co. shows that during the first three quarters of the year. 823 banks with liabilities of $703,000,000 were involved, against 360 banks and $270,168,000 during the same time last year. Regionally, the failures up to Oct. 1 were...