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...about 17? a mile. But for the new routes, bids reached new lows. Reason: successful bidders were to get their franchises confirmed as long as "public convenience and necessity" demanded them, when CAA took over, and would consequently have places in line if or when CAA handed out a fatter subsidy...
...they richer grow-richer and fatter...
...named Garabed Bishirgian emerged from Armenia to gamble in rugs, caviar, tin and finally pepper with such success that he was known as the "Pepper King," threw parties which were the awe of London and owned a model farm in Surrey on which he raised 600 thoroughbred pigs even fatter and greasier than their owner. In 1935 "Pepper King" Bishirgian joined with his friend "Tin King" John Henry Charles Ernest Howeson in an attempt to corner the pepper market. When a bumper crop threatened their corner, they resorted to a fraudulent stock issue which brought several old commodity firms...
...have me here again, I'll gladly return and sing with all my soul." For five years Sparrow Gigli warbled in Continental concerts, grew a paunch in Munich beer halls, dabbled in German cinemas. Then Hollywood finally called him again to the U. S. Last week, much fatter than in his Metropolitan heyday and resembling both New York's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia and Chicago's Scarface Al Capone, he made his U. S. cinema debut in Forever Yours, by all odds the best operatic picture of the year...
Some of this dividend rush was attributed to the new tax law penalizing undistributed earnings. Chrysler Corp. was whooped to a new high since 1929 ($112 per share) on talk of fatter payments at the next dividend meeting. But while the tax law would evidently tend to liberalize dividend policies, its long-range effect upon stock prices was no clearer than the law itself. The prime factor in stock prices remains earnings, not dividends...