Word: earned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rate is more in line with the open market rate on acceptances of 2 to 1⅞%, and call money at 2. It has also been surmised that the new rate indicated that the Bank sought to expend its loans to earn more money, and that it indicated that the Reserve authorities did not expect higher money rates this Fall to any considerable extent. This latter conjecture is important if true; a sudden rise in money rates would not only prove a real shock to security traders, but interrupt much foreign and domestic financing, including perhaps several railroad mergers...
...Hocking Valley, and the Pere Marquette. The new company will have two classes of stock, common and 6% preferred, which will be exchanged in varying ratios for the stocks of the several roads going into the merger, on terms apparently favorable to all concerned. On the basis of 1923 earnings of the several roads involved, the new Nickel Plate would earn its fixed charges nearly twice, its preferred 'dividends almost four times, and its common dividends at 6% over twice. The Nickel Plate Railway system will have total assets of about $1,500,000,000, total trackage...
...expected that the entire year of 1924 will show a profit, but deficits are inevitable during the first quarter, and not improbable during the first half of the current year. Not since the early years of its organization, some eight years ago, has the Reserve system failed to earn a regular profit sufficient to cover all dividends...
...there is the slightest chance of the University's placing high enough among the scorers on Saturday, it-is also probable that Coach Farrell will repeat Watters in the mile run, in which he is also entered, and in this event it is hoped that he will earn at least four more points for the Crimson total
...Awood Broun, he will need all his humor and poise to keep from showing off. Thus far he has succeeded. The delightful thing about this book of short stories is not the amusing burlesque framework, ridiculing those textbooks that offer to teach illiterate soda-clerks to earn $25,000 in the writing business; nor is it in the tales themselves, which are most divertingly couched in "the American language." The insolent humor of the book lies in the fact that between the framework and the stories there is absolutely no connection. Let the doubting reader verify by glancing over...