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Altogether, there are 1,500,000 common shares authorized, of which 1,155,400 have been issued. Of the latter, 762,000 shares (or 65%) were recently held by the General Electric, the Westinghouse and the United Fruit Companies, leaving 393,400 shares (about 35%) in the hands of individual security investors and speculators. Since many of these latter are held by what Wall Street calls "firm hands," the floating supply of Radio common shares is not large, unless the three above-named corporations have begun to sell out their large holdings. Consequently, the amount of stock available...
More Sex. Experiments on fruit, flies and bees show that sex is determined by the arrangement of chromosomes in the cells derived from parents. The inference is that sex is hereditary. -Dr. Calvin B. Bridges, Columbia University...
...plan for the Dictionary originated two years ago in the Council of Learned Societies. A committee under Dr. John F. Jameson of the Carnegie Institution (Washington, D.C.) laid out the work, suggesting the British Dictionary as a model and recommending that all articles be the fruit of fresh work by specially qualified writers. It was "hoped and believed" that the work would "stand upon a unique level of authority, scholarship and literary quality...
...laughter and pain. . . . Where's the dictionary? "Flapdragon-Snapdragon.-A sport in which raisins or grapes are snapped from burning brandy and eaten. See example I " "The wantonness of the thing was to see each other look like a demon as we burnt ourselves and snatched at the fruit. This fantastical mirth was called Snap-dragon.' "STEELE, Toiler...
Professor Munro is an expert of international reputation on mediaeval history. He has made a detailed study of the Crusades, the fruit of which appeared in his "Essays on the Crusades published in 1902. He also wrote a book on "Mediaeval Civilization...