Word: evens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chrysler paid $8 per share, their quarterly dividend should be at least $2. It seems that I have lost money on that basis. I have only received $1, $1.50, $1.50 for the last three dividends on Chrysler stock. Maybe these weren't quarterly dividends but I think so. Even so it's a damn fine corporation...
...only 25% of total exports to the Allies. In the first six months of 1939 shipments of the materials now embargoed accounted for a peewee proportion of total U. S. exports. Still on the permitted export list were such war necessities as oil, steel, grains and other foodstuffs, even parachutes...
Last week ancient Eddie Moore, still on Kennedy's personal pay roll, was too busy with his boss even to play golf on Sunday. Kennedy sat in shirt sleeves at his desk, grabbing by turns at the three phones at his left, talking to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, to Lord Halifax, to Secretary of State Cordell Hull, to Franklin Roosevelt. As he always does, Kennedy worked with windows thrown wide, coat tossed on a rack, vest draped over a chair, the sleeves of his hard-collared shirt rolled over his freckled forearms, tugging his black suspenders, cussing, grumbling incoherently...
...result is far from being a debunking job. Biographer Bakeless drops a number of legends (including one that Boone lived with a Shawnee squaw), moderates a number of storybook feats. But in the main his 480-page dead-eye biography portrays Boone as a deserving hero. Not even adolescents will be disillusioned by the true story of Boone's escape from Chief Blackfish, his wily strategy in the siege of Boonesborough, his exploits as an officer of the Kentucky militia...
...good wives grace those turbulent and dangerous times. One was Mariamne, sweet-tempered Jewish wife of Herod, who loved her desperately even though he let her be executed as a result of Salome's cold-blooded intrigues. The other was Amytis, wife of handsome, witty, tolerant Cyrus...