Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last month Postmaster-General Walter Folger Brown, perusing a roseate stock-selling prospectus of the United States Lines, opined that no fostering was needed, withheld its mail contracts. Last week Mr. Brown, finding mail bids of the Mississippi Shipping Co. and other Shipping Board fleet buyers higher than those of competitors, again held back. He begged President Hoover to direct him to reject all pending mail contracts until Congress could decide whether the lagniappe should actually go to Shipping Board buyers, or whether, now that the fleets were sold, the contracts might not be given to lowest bidders as required...
Cynics suggested that Russia and the U. S. might be satisfied by exchanging the higher-ups in their ship industries...
...Detroit Stock Exchange one day last week Bank of Detroit opened 120 points higher than it had closed the night before. Union-Commerce Corp. varied 39 points during the day's trading. Other banks' stocks danced, jumped, oscillated. Half an hour after the market closed, the reason for these gyrations became evident. Officials of Guardian Detroit Group and Union-Commerce Corp.?two of Detroit's biggest banks ? announced their merger. Furthermore, the merged bank planned soon to acquire Bank of Detroit and eight smaller institutions in and around the city. With capital assets of $75,000,000, deposits...
...Miss Alice Gulielma Rowland and Miss Eleanor 0. Brownell, operators of the medium-fashionable Shipley School for girls at Bryn Mawr, Pa., were refunded $2,586.66 paid as income tax, although a lower court had ruled that the school was not a corporation entitled to "personal service classification." The higher court ruled that because of the "close personal contact between the teacher and the taught," the school's "money income must be ascribed to the activities of the Misses Howland and Brownell, its sole stockholders, for without these two women's daily, personal work, the school would simply...
...heterogeneous U. S. saga has to do mainly with a family of Raricks upon whom life brings many blessings in the shape of a chain of 5? & 10? stores. Little weazened Father Rarick acquires the happy faculty of buying hairnets and celluloid balls low and selling them higher builds a 79-story monument to himself, misunderstands his family. His pampered, poetical son, Avery, commits suicide at college because, "it was too much." Mother Rarick bitterly tries to suck romance out of a surreptitious affair with another woman's gigolo, Ramond. Her daughter is fascinated by a handsome married...