Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON--Secretary of State Cordell Hull today notified American shipping to stay out of war zones and warned belligerent powers that unrestricted attacks on this nation's sea-borne commerce will encounter firm opposition...
...wife's life, $3,575,000 in cash. Goebbels was given a total of $8,990,000, of which $4,635,000 was said to be cash. Ribbentrop's figure was $9,740,000. The report named securities held for GÖring by "a German shipping firm in New York": $750,000 worth of bonds, mostly Pennsylvania R. R., Illinois Central, Cities Service, Bethlehem Steel. It gave him three ranches in South America; $1,225,000 in a bank at Sao Paulo, Brazil; $1,000,000 in Swedish kronor, Danish kroner, Dutch guilders and Belgian francs...
...firm in Uruguay looked in the U. S. for wool-processing machinery formerly bought from France...
Blue Channel Corp. has patented its process, is still the only firm in the country packing blue crabs in sealed cans. Its factory at Port Royal, S. C. buys the crabs during the day from sleepy Negro fishermen, packs them before the next dawn-150 cases a night...
...cumulative preferred stock, 100,000 shares of no par common (current price $3.75). Although funded debt has been reduced by almost one half, Marion owes $1,619,388 back dividends on her outstanding preferred. Two years ago net sales of $6,174,822 gave the firm a $338,191 net profit; last year the company was back in the red, almost $500,000; last week Marion's big, handsome, conservative president, James Hatton Waiters, a crack salesman (who had been on the verge of recapitalizing the company), suddenly observed that apparently Marion was about to have a "very good...