Word: groups
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suspending shares of the Hatry group from listing on 'Change the august Stock Exchange Committee loosed a thunderbolt not previously hurled at any British corporation, a dreadful weapon supposed to be reserved for interloping foreigners. The crash of Hatry shares has been estimated to involve a $30,000,000 loss. Members of the Committee were said to have discovered that Hatry had obtained a loan of over $1,000,000 by depositing as collateral fictitious bearer script certificates of City of Wakefield 4½% stock. Four Hatry group companies are now going through liquidation: General Securities Ltd., of which...
...Cineman Fox's foxiness. Offered in 1925, Fox Theatres stock has paid no dividends, has never responded to continued reports of expansion. In 1928 its earnings were $1.91 a share. Previous attempts to distribute the stock, mostly held by speculators, have been unsuccessful. Early this year a group of brokers ran the stock to 37⅞, but before much was distributed it broke to 21½. Last week it was strong around 28 on belief that the Fox Birthday plan, if successful, will reduce the floating supply...
Northwest Bancorporation acquired six new banks. Total banks in the group became 76, with combined resources of more than $440,000,000. Capital stock of Northwest Bancorporation will be increased from $75,000,000 to $300,000,000 and 150,000 shares offered to stockholders...
Union-Guardian-Detroit Group acquired control of Ohio Pennsylvania Joint Stock Land Bank, a $15,000,000 institution...
...Death of a Bachelor brings to his bedside a group of old friends who find a letter concerning their wives which changes their opinion of the deceased. Andreas Thameyer's Last Letter is a treatise on the effect of shock during pregnancy, written before his suicide, explaining to the world that the Negro child his wife had borne him was the result of such a shock. It is instantly amusing because between the lines one perceives that Andreas Thameyer knew his wife had made him a cuckold...