Word: factors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defective condition, there is not enough blood to flush out the metabolites which the muscles continue to form for a while. The accumulated metabolites cause the lameness and agony. This is the probable explanation. Until more research makes the explanation certain, Sir Thomas is calling his pain causer Factor...
...stage, Producer Sam H. Harris said to him: "Can't you get a little more variety into your performance?" Replied Zeppo: "Just how many ways are there of saying yes?" The Gay Diplomat (RKO Radio) is a routine spy story which contains the one necessary new factor in the spy story formula. This factor consists in having two beautiful women both suspected of being spies. One of them, the heroine (Genevieve Tobin), proves to be innocent. The other (Betty Compson) is trapped by a handsome Rumanian officer (Ivan Lebedeff). The fact that Ivan Lebedeff speaks very poor English...
...tons and stood at 3,144,833 tons. The industry remains hopeful of: 1) increased building construction if credit facilities become easier; 2) real buying from the railroads after the I. C. C.'s rate decision; 3) bigger demand from, the automobile industry in November. A disturbing factor was the new low price for steel scrap registered last week, $8.03 per gross ton against $9 the week before...
Just as "investment trust buying" was a potent pushup factor in 1929, "investment trust selling" has been a big knock-down factor in many a stock recently. Last week Tri-Continental Corp., investment trust sponsored by J. & W. Seligman & Co., issued its third quarter report?one of the first major trusts to do so. At the same time Selected Industries, Inc., Tri-Continental supervised, published its showing. The investments of Tri-Continental Corp. had, on Sept. 30, a market value of 29 millions against a cost of 51 millions. The common stock had a book value of $2.84 against...
...factor in the sharpness of the decline was "leverage." If an investment trust has, for example, $40,000,000 preferred stock outstanding, 1,000,000 shares of common, and assets of $50,000.000, the common has a book value of $10 a share. If the assets increase 10% to $55,000,000, the book value of the common jumps, by "leverage," 50% to $15. In Wall Street, stocks with large leverage are spoken of as "having a kick to them...