Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chairman of the Red Cross War Council, where he displayed his financial abilities by raising more than $100,000,000 in one campaign. The world of finance generally agrees that at the time of his death in June, 1922, H. P. Davison was the ablest partner in the Morgan firm...
...diamond was found, the President was told, ten years ago in Cape Colony, and belongs to an American firm on Fifth Avenue...
...firm of Dillon, Read & Co. and the British firm of J. H. Schroder & Co. purchased for some $4,000,000 a large interest in the Deutsche Luxemburgische Gesellschaft, one of the largest industrial concerns which the late Herr Hugo Stinnes founded and one which, with the Gelsenkirchen, Bochumerverein and Siemens concerns-the so-called Rhine-Elbe Union-controls the output of German coal, coke, iron, steel...
...unused resources of credit are still so great that it is as important to determine what Federal Reserve officials think of things as to juggle with endless statistics. At present glance, it seems likely that the top of the bond market has been reached, and that money rates will firm slightly this fall...
...purposes. The balance is now disposed in similar manner. *Tennessee was the only state carried by Harding in 1920 which Coolidge did not carry in 1924. Coolidge, however, carried Kentucky, which Harding lost. *Louis Kroh Liggett is an able, self-made man. At 14 he was working for a firm of dry-goods brokers. At 27 he was selling a line of druggists' goods. Conceiving the idea of cooperative buying and manufacturing, he induced 40 druggists to put $4,000 each in the project. At 50 he is head of the United Drug Co., doing a business of almost...