Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colleagues of the Boston press have not liked Mr. Kesselring's offering and it is with the double pleasure of aloneness that he raises his humble voice in approval. The Playgoer enjoyed "There's Wisdom in Women" and he thinks that, with the exception of the worthies of the fourth estate, so did the glittering first-nighters...
...vertical acceleration . . . of about 16 ft. per sec. At the same time there was a tumbling motion of the body making a complete revolution in about two seconds. Of all these motions . . . the only one recognized was rotation of the body. . . . During the third and fourth seconds, the eyes were voluntarily closed and during that time all sense of motion was lost. . . . The sensation was that of being suspended at rest in midair. When the eyes were opened, which was at an altitude of about 1,900 ft., and the ground again sighted . . . there was for the first time...
...stockholders of Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp., fourth largest producer of fertilizer in the U. S., started fighting in the summer of 1932, have been at it ever since. One rule of their game appears to be that the president of the company always loses. There have been three presidents in the last three years, and there will probably be a fourth next month. Another rule is that Director George S. Kemp always wins. In Richmond last week Virginia-Carolina stockholders elected a new directorate. One set of candidates was headed by Director Kemp; the other by President Alphonso Lynn Ivey...
...last of the Liberty Bonds mature, the New Deal will have paid off or converted into securities bearing lower interest some $8,200,000,000 of Wartime debt-one of the biggest and least spectacular conversion operations in history. The first call for $1,880,000,000 of Fourth Liberties was made just two years ago. Exchange offers were accepted by holders of 90% of the bonds, the balance being paid in cash. Six months later another $1,250,000,000 of Fourth Liberties were called, and 87% of the bonds were exchanged. Still another block...
...fourth and final installment of Fourth Liberties amounts to $1,250,000,000. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau was vacationing last week but Acting Secretary Thomas Jefferson Coolidge admitted that the offer was "dragging." However, said he. "on this market we'll get our normal amount. The market was good today and the conversion is profitable, which means that the big fellows will convert." Sure enough, the Treasury received $995,000,000 of Liberties under its offer even before final figures were in "Successful!" said Thomas Jefferson Coolidge...