Word: grains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large corporation made news by voting to increase dividends or to join the ranks of dividend payers for the first time in years. Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe Railway led off with a declaration of $2 on its common stock payable Sept. 1, the first dividend since June 1932. Southwest grain shipments had lifted Santa Fe's freight traffic to the highest point in 20 months. Earnings for the year ended June 30 would approximate $1 per share, said Chairman Samuel Thomas Bledsoe. and the rest of the dividend would be paid out of surplus...
...Joaquin County, Calif., an incendiary fastened sandpaper to the spring of a mousetrap, friction matches to the base. Carefully he pulled the spring back and held it at tension with a piece of adhesive tape. Then he put his contrivance in a grain field and from hiding waited until the sun melted the adhesive and sprang the trap which ignited the matches and set fire to 1,600 acres of grain...
...little for the rest of Russia. Torn between the conflicting commands of Kerensky. Kornilov and the Bolsheviks. Gregor did not know what to do with his loyalty. When his regiment broke up he joined the Red Guards, but shooting down men of his own blood went I against his grain. He took the excuse of a furlough for wounds to go home and stay i there. Soon the Cossacks, their local ! patriotism roused by an invasion of the Reds, were forced willy-nilly into savage civil war, with Cossack massacring Cossack. But Gregor had had enough, took no part...
...singing it to Edward G. Robinson in I Loved a Woman. Baritone John Charles Thomas was one of several to put it on a phonograph record which lately reached a Mr. and Mrs. William Goodwin in Manhattan Beach, Calif. William Goodwin, a onetime cowboy who now runs a hay, grain & feed business in Tempe, Ariz., claimed that he and his wife wrote the song, called it "An Arizona Home" and had it copyrighted when they went to the St. Louis Fair in 1904. Last week in Manhattan Federal Court Cowboy Goodwin & wife brought an infringement suit for $500,000 against...
...interest in commodity speculation. Many a New York Stock Exchange house has garnered more commissions from its seat on a commodity exchange than from its Big Board membership. Eastman, Dillon & Co. lately rearranged the chairs in its Chicago office to face the commodity board instead of the stock board. Grain brokers, cotton brokers, sugar brokers, produce brokers, hope to capitalize on the fact that, so far, they have escaped the rigid Federal regulation of their fellow stock brokers. Minor commodities, as yet unexploited, were being investigated. Quicksilver, now selling at $75 per flask of. 76 Ib., was suggested...