Word: firms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Definite information regarding the firm which will build the theatre has been inaccessible. The Gordon Olympia Theatres Corporation, which has theatres all over Greater Boston, denied all rumors to the effect that they might be the firm who contemplated establishing such a theatre. "We have already got two theatres in Cambridge, and that is enough for the present", said the head of the Gordon firm when interviewed upon this question...
Currency. Russian currency was put on a firm gold foundation, the chervonetz (new currency) remained stable and was for the most part quoted at slightly over par on European exchanges. In the first three quarters of the year, however, 180,000,000 rubles (gold value) were issued without gold security...
...brief education and, when he was 17, became a clerk in the cashier's office of Marshall Field & Co. Within a year the discerning Marshall Field had made him his confidential clerk. At Mr. Field's death, Simpson, then 32, became Second Vice President of the firm in association with such prominent men as Potter Palmer, Harlow N. Higinbotham, John G. Shedd, Henry T. Willing, H. Gordon Self ridge. The towheaded young Scotchman, alert and hardworking, made his way among them. He is not a great talker, but generally says what he thinks. Once in his younger days he went...
...prominent U. S. investment banking firm recently published statistics on the gradual cheapening of electric power for illuminating purposes. The following table shows the candlepower purchasable at different times...
...great, burly man with a firm yet benevolent face...