Word: holder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having done this ciphering, the stock holder could not be sure that his figures were correct because year-end adjustments might have distorted them. In a company like A.T. & T. the stockholder would undoubtedly have been informed of any important special charges against earnings. But an unscrupulous management could temporarily deceive its stockholders as to the profit trend. An official of another company using twelve-month reports, replying to a newshawk's complaint that the plan made it impossible for a stockholder to learn what his company earned in any given quarter, blandly declared: "That's the idea...
...paleontology, promotion of research, recognition of the place of science in human affairs. Dr. Merriam's broad surveys of fossils and artifacts convince him that man in the U. S. is at least 100,000 years old. Dr. William Francis Giauque, 40, of the University of California, holder of the U. S. record for low temperature (.16° C. above Absolute Zero), discoverer of two variant forms of oxygen weighing 17 and 18 atomic units instead of the ordinary 16; the Chandler medal of Columbia University...
...reference to the column Milestones, TIME, Feb. 24, I was indeed surprised to find your account so brief as to omit all mention of one of Hiram Percy Maxim's greatest interests: Amateur Radio. Himself the holder of an amateur "ticket" [license], he was the esteemed president of the Amateur's foremost protective interest, the American Radio Relay League. In the hearts of Hams [operators] will he be remembered longest and best...
...with Russia having twice as many seats as either Japan or Manchukuo. Previously the Japanese offer had always been for a commission on which each of the three countries would be "equally represented," thus giving Japan the majority, since she bosses Manchukuo. Thus last week Boss Joseph Stalin, holder of no office in the Soviet Government, but merely the "Secretary General" of the Communist Party, had thrown something like a scare into the Japanese Cabinet of His Divine Majesty the Son of Heaven, Emperor Hirohito. By no means scared were the fanatical militarists of Japan's Fighting Services...
...have a dollar to put in." One sure sign of broadening popular interest in stockmarket speculation is booming activity in so-called "penny stocks," which are shares selling below $1. Most active issue on the New York Curb Exchange last week was U. S. Electric Power warrants, entitling the holder to buy one share of the company's common at $25. The common, also active, sells at about 75? per share. Nearly 500,000 of U. S. Electric Power warrants changed hand last week at about 9? each. Another favorite with penny-stock traders has been Insull...