Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year from less than $8,000,000 to more than $79,000,000. Furthermore, the entire increase was accounted for in an item called "Discovered Increment." Little light was shed on the subject by a footnote explaining that "Discovered Increment" had been revalued by application of the "Hoskold Formula." What happened was that Climax simply wrote up its ore reserves by some $70,000,000. Formerly carried at what amounted to a nominal $3,600,000, the Climax reserves are by all odds the world's largest. And Climax produces three-fourths of the world's molybdenum...
...that banker-managed investment trusts could lose money just as fast as any individual investor, a terrific public revulsion occurred. One result was the quick growth in the first years of Depression of the so-called fixed trust, an institution in which securities were bought & sold by an inflexible formula. In its early form the fixed trust offered a virtual guarantee that securities would be sold for less than their purchase price because the trust agreement usually provided that stock could be disposed of only after dividends had stopped. Meantime, general management trusts were so unpopular that their stocks frequently...
Complications developed from the old Belasco play Shore Leave are of the boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl formula. The wind-up is a benefit show on board a freighter: boys-get-girls...
...conglomeration of the above elements would find success easy and inevitable, but there is obviously lacking the spark of inspiration, indispensable to what is really good, even in the medium of celluloid. "Follow the Fleet" is the well-timed appearance of a cut-and-dried application of a tested formula...
...eight months after entering the University, but also his Master's degree in August. Super-Scooter MacMurray has already taken seven of nine comprehensive examinations needed for his bachelor's degree. Score: four A's, two B's, one D (in Physical Sciences). His formula: study 14 hours a day (with the aid of chocolate bars and coffee) for several days, then take two days off to go hiking...