Word: emeralds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Devonshire heard that Their Majesties were coming, he did, however, have the bathroom at Compton Place repainted. Fabulously rich, he owns an emerald two inches long, 186,000 acres, palaces galore. Last week Their Majesties, who are far from considering their Daimler limousine a foul, stinking thing, motored down to Compton Place where a brand new police box had been established. A special post office was put into operation to handle the Royal mail. Apart from this George V made no changes or modernizations in archaic Compton Place except to have installed his favorite seven-valve (tube) radio...
...EMERALD MURDER TRAP-Jackson Gregory-Scribner ($2). Wicked old Paradene's trap was not long empty; it caught more than he wanted, because of Mr. Paul Savoy...
...financial" sheet, The Wall Street Iconoclast, attacked margin trading on the New York Stock Exchange, advised widows & orphans to keep their money in savings banks, recommended the purchase of sound listed securities. But the Iconoclast also managed to keep such Rice stocks as Idaho Copper, General Mining and Colombia Emerald constantly in his readers' minds. He even had his own stock exchange, the Boston "Curb." When Rice stocks soared, shareholders would receive telegrams from Promoter Rice exhorting them not to sell. Presumably that was just the time that Promoter Rice did his best selling, for he is estimated...
...worth $500 a year ... I will be inclined to grant . . . another year's subscription gratis." As a postscript he added: "I shall take occasion very frequently in the columns of the Watchtower to state my views as to the status of the Idaho Copper and Colombia Emerald Companies. I think what I shall have to say will prove of great interest...
Idaho Copper went into receivership in 1929, was pulled out, then slipped in again in 1932. Its stock last sold in 1931 at 2/5 of 1? a share. Its production is nil. Colombia Emerald has some emeralds but its mine in the Department of Boyaca, Colombia is closed and its shares were lately quoted...