Word: investments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From TAT, Col. Lindbergh had received $250,000 cash with an invitation to invest it in TAT stock, which he did. Profits from the sale of that stock have been $195,633. From TAT he received, as technical adviser, $10,000 a year until it merged with Western Air in 1931. His salary was then fixed at $7,194, since...
FALLING STAR-Vicki Baum-Double-day, Doran ($2). This translation of Hollywood into terms of romance should please many a reader, including even Hollywoodland sprites. German Authoress Baum has enough gusto to invest even tinselly happenings with glamour, though her sugary Teutonic melodrama should be taken with a heaping teaspoonful of salt. Donka Morescu, who had been a star of the silent cinema, was just staging a last comeback. Her beauty was at its fullest bloom, her ambition straining at the traces. Donka was happy. Her lover was Oliver Dent, Hollywood's greatest star, at the peak...
...young Harvard Business School graduate named Charles Walton ("Chuck") Deeds who was fiddling around with marine engines in Hamilton, Ohio, found himself with $40 to invest. Long interested in aviation, he decided to buy 200 shares of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. Year before that company had been launched by his father, Col. Edward Andrew Deeds of National Cash Register, and two dissatisfied Wright Aeronautical Corp. executives- Frederick Brant Rentschler and George Jackson Mead. Pratt & Whitney Aircraft had one small shop at Hartford, Conn, and $1,000,000 worth of debts. On paper its stock was not worth even...
...question of gold profit is settled, obviously there can be no devaluation or stabilization. And until the investors know exactly what kind of dollars are to be issued by the government in payment of government short term certificates and long term bonds, there will be a hesitancy to invest...
...Beach Club at Long Beach. N. Y., just because Eddie Cantor. George Jessel, Bugs Baer. Mark Hellinger and others were so gullible. The enterprise, it appears, is being worked along the lines of another 'racket,' to which I am opposed and I hope others won't invest in the damb thing because our names are being prostituted...