Word: expositioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Now something of a tycoon, Frank Howell decided to organize other Bronzeville bigwigs, hold a two-day Exposition of Negro Business for the double purpose of spurring Negro business and arranging a program to fight "fleecing" by whites. So last week to the shabby 8th Regiment Armory trooped no less...
According to Mr. Brown's balance sheet of December 31, 1937, "what we own" amounts to $51,281,512.56 and "what we owe" amounts to $4,845,554.69. On the basis of Mr. Brown's exposition, the company is "worth" the difference, or $46,435,957.87.
The interests of the company's stockholders are represented by 75,000 shares of preferred having a market value of about $9,375,000, and 850,000 shares of common stock having a market value of about $60,000,000. Thus, on the basis of the composite opinion of...
The "Revolt" carries on Pi Eta Theatricals' tradition of musical comedy. The story, dealing inevitably with a mythical land, a dictatorship, and the bumpy road to love, is unimportant, although its complications require so much exposition that little room is left for irrelevant wit. Fortunately the play's barbed remarks...
But Mr. Brown's triumph of exposition was this notable simplification of a balance sheet. "Very simply," he said, "it is a statement of what we own, what we owe and what we are worth. ... It is exactly the same as if you took two sheets of paper and...