Word: firm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like to mix spirituals with dance tunes," said the Duke. He was pretty firm about this. While he said that the spirituals had an African rhythm with an American touch, he refused to associate them with modern "swing," about which he was rather disdainful. Because, according to the Duke, swing is a very simple thing that can be developed if the composer is capable enough. But most of them aren...
...chastened and employed as a whipping post, and when instilling the confidence and providing the stable government necessary for real recovery was the farthest thing from the President's mind. The original Securities Act, although designed ostensibly to prevent frauds and protect the public, in reality acted as a firm blockade against the receipt of the new capital so sorely needed by American business. Perhaps the crowning blow was the undistributed profits tax and its hand-maiden, the capital gains tax. The first, by destroying all hope of building up a reserve fund on which to count in less prosperous...
...iron-grey hair flying, his firm jaws clenched, Conductor Artur Rodzinski mounted a podium in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center one day last week, and with a brisk downbeat of his baton started a new orchestra through its paces. He soon exclaimed: "Marvelous! The strings are fantastically fine. ... I doubt if there has ever been assembled anywhere, at any time, a new orchestra that promises so much for the future...
Certain other issues had a better fate last week, notably that of Continental Can Co. whose $20,000,000 of preferred stock, offered at $100 a share, went at a premium of $102, to the vast delight of Goldman, Sachs & Co. Similarly, a new firm named Lane-Wells Co. (which owns a unique process of "blowing in" oil wells with something called a "gun-perforator") successfully sold 40,000 shares at $15 each in its first public financing to the joy of Hartley Rogers & Co. But Continental Can is unusually strong and Lane-Wells enjoys unusual earnings. Other companies, less...
...importing Spanish onionseed; U. S. production of Spanish onions, which are the choicest of all, in 1921 was only 500 carloads. This year it is about 12,000. Total U. S. onion production last year was 70,000 carloads, of which Dingfelder & Balish handled more than any other firm. Also interested in potatoes, they had gross sales of $5,000,000. Last month after some disagreements Onion King Balish bought out his partner. Last week the new firm of Benjamin Balish Co., Inc. was squared off to dominate this year's smallish crop of 50,000 carloads, harvested from...