Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Waesche as commandant of the Coast Guard, General Craig as Army Chief of Staff, Harry Hopkins as Relief Administrator and CCC Director Fechner assembled with the President to set the wheels of succor turning day & night for 400,000 flood victims. And the flood was merely one more unexpected item in the torrent of events which proceeded to baptize the new term. One day John L. Lewis boldly demanded that the President help the C. I. 0. lick General Motors and was turned down (see p. 11). On another arrived Dr. Jose Carlos de Macedo Scares, onetime Brazilian Minister...
...umbrella. In eight years, on a union salary of $35 per week, he saved $350,000. "It was with great thrift," he has explained. As early as 1915 "Umbrella Mike" was indicted for a racketeering conspiracy in restraint of trade, jailed after a five-year legal battle. One item of evidence showed that he had extorted $20,000 from Chicago Telephone Co. for permission to erect a building without strikes. After two months of his one-year sentence President Wilson pardoned him, despite a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals opinion that the evidence in his trial proclaimed...
...biggest government bond dealers in the U. S., First Boston had $30.000,000 worth of Treasury issues on its shelves. Other securities, including those in joint trading accounts, footed up to $15,400,000. It had sold short about $2,000.000 worth of securities, carried under the liability item, "Securities Sold Not Yet Purchased." For other investment bankers as well as Colonel Pope, 1936 was a fine year. Total corporate financing, reported the Commercial & Financial Chronicle, amounted to $4,600,000,000, over twice the figure for the year before and about twelve times the total for 1933 when...
...Manhattan Chairman Walter Frew of Corn Exchange Bank Trust Co., whose statements anyone is supposed to be able to understand, pointed out that his commercial loans now amounted to only $9,000,000, whereas that item used to run as high as $50,000,000. As for return on his money, Banker Frew was averaging only 4.28% on mortgages, 4.12% on loans and discounts, 2.96% on Government bonds, which at the year end comprised more than one-half of all the bank's earning assets...
These indices differ because they are figured on different bases. Dun's was started in 1860, is compiled from more than 200 items. The magic base of normality-100%-is not used. Instead, figures expressing a total in which each item is "weighted" according to per capita consumption, allow the index to run where it will. For customers used to the Bradstreet index started in 1892 Dun & Bradstreet also computes the combined per-lb. prices of 96 items. This monthly index was at $6.35 in March 1933, is now at $11.14. The Annalist uses a long list of commodities...