Word: interests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...capacity as head of the largest exchange in the country, Martin has taken particular interest in the Stock Exchange Institute, a school which trains men between the ages of 16 and 35 for the brokerage business. In this Wall Street School the 1200 students learn the fine points of practical economics from outstanding authorities...
Given in modern dress, Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus" is another example of the value of present-day technique as applied to classical drama. Borrowing from the Mercury Theatre, the Federal Theatre has given a production lacking in technical excellence but of interest and importance as a revival...
...find that: 1) If, as Franklin Roosevelt says, it is inadequate for national defense, his favorite branch of the service is still amply capable of giving taxpayers their money's worth in a theatre. 2) Aside from its new sphere of operations, the Navy's chief interest remains what it always has been: romance, in this case between the daughter (Nancy Kelly) of a freighter's captain and a daring young engineer (Richard Greene*) on the submarine chaser S.C. 599, assigned to convoy the freighter through the Mediterranean. Result of the combination is to make Submarine Patrol...
...this reduced the capitalization from $80,500,000 to $61,000,000 and fixed interest charges from $1,700,000 to $505,000. As usual, ICCommissioner Charles D. Mahaffie dissented on the ground that this was not drastic enough...
...Deal, particularly through Jesse Jones, keeps egging banks to lend more. They cannot, say bankers, because industry just does not want to borrow, despite interest rates at record lows. Practically every other avenue to bank profits is similarly closed. Underwriting is forbidden, pinched volume on the stockmarket has reduced security and brokerage loans, the huge flow of gold, which has to be invested in short-term loans for liquidity, produces virtually no income (interest on 91-day Treasury bills, for example, is only .027%). The few big banks doing well today are those like Chicago's Continental Illinois National...