Word: factly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many ways the new holding company will resemble Standard Brands, which retains the identity of its units but profits through economy in distribution. Chief unit of Standard Brands was Fleish-mann Yeast Co. with a highly specialized, rapid system of distribution famed in fact and romance. Another was nationally sold Royal Baking Powder. To the new company Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp. brings an international distribution system that embraces food stores, while the marketing systems of Hershey and Colgate include candy and drug stores. With this nucleus other companies can be added, swiftly expanded...
That nearly every stock was at bargain prices by any modern economic standard was best shown by the fact that very soundest stocks were selling at ten times current earnings and many a stock such as that of the General Motors Corp. reached a point where it was only five or six times current earnings. And General Motors, according to the once unchallenged statement of John J. Raskob, should sell at 15 times earnings. Quite aside from their relation to earnings many stocks sold at a point where their actual yield in dividends was higher than the yield of bonds...
Compared to this second design, the fantastic curtain revel-in fact the whole Chicago opera organization-becomes no more than Punch-&-Judy. Yet it is Punch-&-Judy on the very largest scale. To make the scale larger, the Chicago company is sent, in the Insull manner, all over the country on tours; not special engagements in a few big cultural capitals like Baltimore, Washington, Atlanta and Cleveland where Otto Hermann Kahn's Metropolitan goes; but country-wide expeditions-Boston, Buffalo, Columbus, Nashville, Birmingham, Jackson, Dallas. San Antonio, El Paso, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Fresno, Sacramento, Oakland. Amarillo, Tulsa, Lincoln...
...York one million times, all over the Atlantic seaboard, through the South, the Middle West and in Butte, Montana. ... I spoke at Oklahoma City on religious tolerance. Listeners in on the radio were particularly disturbed because of the noises in the hall which they believed were disorder. The fact is that a large part of the noise was created by an individual about halfway down the hall who continuously shouted: 'Pour it on 'em, Al, pour it on 'em. . . .' When I spoke in Louisville the heat in the meeting hall was noticeable to everyone. We afterwards...
...look through his eyes at the men he knew and events. ... I have not made up any conversations or rearranged any events with an eye to dramatic effect." Biographer Whitlock's eclectic synthesis, whatever it may do to the real La Fayette, emphasizes the not very astonishing fact that his guiding principle was liberty-love. Only in the dullest of classrooms will the Whitlock style of biography not seem to produce a tedious ache...