Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reserve Bank to go to Basle was elected last week President and Board Chairman of the B. I. S. As his large, well-knit body eased into the chairman's place, Mr. McGarrah cleared his throat and, with a trace of Scotch burr, sonorously announced as the first item of business that his alternate and technical advisor will be Mr. Leon Fraser, the "continuing expert" who was chief U. S. legal advisor to young Agent General Seymour Parker Gilbert. Aside from the routine of getting settled at Basle last week, the B. I. S. did no business-though...
...while the Buffalo, Niagara & Eastern companies, within Niagara Hudson's system, although generating 20% by steam, sold 4,436,000,000 kwh. for $32,911,000, and paid $4,546,000 in taxes whereas the Ontario system had practically no expense under this item. Concluded Mr. Carlisle, "If our companies were relieved of the payment of taxes to put them on the same basis with Ontario . . . they could have sold electricity for less than one-half of the amount paid by the householders in Ontario. Judged by any fair comparison, the companies within the Niagara Hudson system are furnishing...
...paying "excessive rentals." Colorado's Senator Phipps. Old Guard chairman of the Senate Post Office Committee, succeeded in temporarily blocking the Elaine resolution, but he was unable to prevent the Senate, by a vote of 35-to-25, from knocking out from the Post Office Appropriation Bill an item of $120,000 for the St. Paul rent, put into the measure at the request of "General" Brown...
...item reminded Sir Thomas that he had crammed the summons into his pocket weeks before, when a call boy had shouted it was time to conduct a concert...
...developed into rich fields the Little River, Bowlegs, Seminole and Oklahoma City pools. Last week, while No. 1 Mary Sudik was still spouting, Manhattan newspapers revealed that Cities Service has again followed this method by acquiring a 51% option on North European Oil Corp. Although there was no new item to justify printing the report last week, accounts told what had been in the April issue of Fortune three weeks ago: Germany has produced some oil, mostly from surface drilling; North European Oil has been formed by Manhattan capitalists to acquire leases on some 2,000,000 acres of this...