Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...court Prosecutor Vernon Ferguson of Los Angeles, assisted by Prosecutor John J. McMahon of San Francisco, set forth the charges on which he expected to send the defendants to jail. Two years ago, cried Prosecutor Ferguson, Reginald L. Rankin, a onetime Washington lumberman, conceived the idea of a great businesslike abortaria chain to accommodate the thousands of California, Oregon and Washington women who wished to avoid the logical result of conception. First step was to make a deal with a skilled operator, Dr. George Eliot Watts of Los Angeles, graduate of the University of Oregon Medical School...
...cash and Government bonds, leaving only the $639,700 legally required as backing for his $5,806,463 deposits. Then he stuffed the $2,500,000 into safety deposit boxes in two Loop banks. Blustered he: "Now the politician will have to think up a new idea before he can get his hands on this money." Reason Banker Nichols can do anything he likes at his bank to make headlines is that he inherited 60% of its 2,000 shares from his father, who got control of the institution 33 years ago. At the bank, "100%" Nichols has a private...
...Present ratio is 44% stock, 56% bonds, which is conservative. So far this year C. & O. had refunded at lower interest rates $60,000,000 worth of long-term bonds, incorporating in the new issues sinking fund provisions which will retire the entire amount by maturity. A relatively novel idea in railroad finance, the sinking fund in the case of C. & 0. will be taken care of by the saving in interest charges resulting from the refinancing...
Grocer's Friend. Thus illuminated by the glow of 65,000 candles was the career of a onetime Chicago accountant named J. (for Joseph) Frank Grimes. Accountant Grimes grasped the idea that the essentials of chainstore distribution- mass buying, good merchandising-were not inseparable from the chainstore setup. In 1926 when the grief of independent grocers and wholesalers over chainstore competition was deepest. Accountant Grimes founded IGA. His accounting partners, William W. Thompson and Louis G. Groebe, became IGA secretary and treasurer, respectively. With a firm of advertising and merchandising experts they set up an organization to service retail...
...hypothetical audience of powerful individuals on the cost of another such conflict to them. Between these two points he has compressed into 243 pages an inclusive study of war propaganda, a rapid but convincing survey of innovations in warfare finance, an exposition of the fallacies underlying the idea that the defeated force can be made to pay the cost of War. While he discounts lurid stories of wholesale destruction, Professor Knight leans to the theory that the next war, like the last, is likely to be a war of positions, fought with deadlocked mass armies, and consequently more costly...