Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With illustrations in full color after twenty-four paintings by W. Russell Flint, A.R.A. This edition of one of the classics of all literature will at once take its place as one of the most beautiful books of this year--and of many years. W. Russell Flint is now considered the foremost water-color artist of England...
...skyrocketed. Last week, when President Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. announced quarterly profits of $79,266,639, nine months' profits of $240,534,613 (record for any corporation in peace time), investors hastily calculated values. In nine months, General Motors had earned $13.42 a share. Expected earnings for the full year raised the figure close to $18. Bull Raskob's formula of "15x" would set the stock's value at $270, or $49 over last week's closing price...
Investors made yet another calculation. Even more significant than General Motors in the eyes of many a businessman are the reports of the mighty U. S. Steel Corp., now ending its first full year under committee management. As everyone knows, the mantle of the late, great Elbert H. Gary was rent into three parts. The first part fell on John Pierpont Morgan as Chairman of the Board; the second on Myron Charles Taylor as Chairman of the Finance Committee; the third on James Augustine Farrell as President. Last week, this triumvirate of tycoons announced quarterly earnings...
Nine months' earnings of U. S. Steel totaled $140,015,494, or $8.17 a share. Expected earnings for the full year would be about $11. By the Raskob formula, the stock's value should approximate $165. Actually, U. S. Steel closed on the stock exchange, last week...
...years. Collected, they emphasize the author's versatility. He proves himself facile in telling a tale of spinsters in a sparkling seaside village, or one of masculine bitterness in the sinister backwoods. In the first, two old maids are fond of each other, fond of their shop full of cross-stitch samplers, fond of the two little donkeys, Percy and Emily, which trot by every day. Miss Alice is going to marry Mr. Maurice Hunting; she meets him formally to accept his offer of a week ago, and he tells her his plans, tells her his hope of having...