Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Their field agents last year brought in $209,586. In return they supplied contributors with "educational bulletins" on tax and tariff matters, gave "expert" advice on fiscal affairs. Sample expenditure: $700 to Frank D. Mondell, onetime Republican floor leader of the House, now a lobbying lawyer, to urge a higher duty on peanuts before the tariff commission. The sum of $77,936.44 went to Lobbyist Arnold and his three chief assistants, one of whom, a Mrs. Darden. had a "stage name for collecting money." Lobbyist Arnold pleaded poverty...
Only about six more real practice sessions remain for Captain Barrett and his men before the Big Blue team invades Cambridge. There remains much to be done, particularly in rounding out the offense, but the Michigan game produced a higher caliber of play by a Harvard team than has any other major game during Horween's four years at Cambridge Harvard was beaten at Ann Arbor, it is true, but it came back from the first trip to "Big Ten" territory with a heads-up attitude, and if left behind a profound respect for the work that Horween has accomplished...
Publisher Boni offered $35,000, and again the deal was made-but not signed. Clemenceau said he must notify the other bidder which was, he said, the New York Times. He agreed to give Publisher Boni a chance to match any higher...
Then the fun began. By fives and tens of thousands, up went the price. Clemenceau each time explaining that the Times had gone higher. When $80,000 was reached, Publisher Boni telephoned from Paris to Manhattan. He suggested to the Times that they were cutting each other's throats. Whereat the Times expressed great surprise because it had not been bidding at all. Off went Publisher Boni well content to let the Tiger whistle...
...where it was only five or six times current earnings. And General Motors, according to the once unchallenged statement of John J. Raskob, should sell at 15 times earnings. Quite aside from their relation to earnings many stocks sold at a point where their actual yield in dividends was higher than the yield of bonds. The following were typical of stocks which were purchased at a price to yield in dividends between 8% and 10%: Anaconda Copper, Bethlehem Steel, Chrysler, General Foods, General Motors, Kennecott Copper, Sinclair...