Word: items
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a carnival of full-blown pink blossoms danced on the prosaic financial pages of daily newspapers. The item was a small one in the daily grist of modernism, one more merger in a merging world. It was announced that Carnation Milk Products Co., whose head office is at Oconomowoc, Wis., whose common shares (435,440 of $25 par) sell at about $48 on the New York Curb, had arranged to acquire Albers Bros. Milling Co. of Oregon. Two and one-half shares of Carnation common stock were offered for each share of Albers preferred, two shares of Carnation...
When a careful man builds his house, he itemizes his actual expenditures-so much for land, so much for lumber, for brick, for cement, for hardware & plumbing. Last fortnight the Federal Power Commission, through its Solicitor Charles A. Russell, ordered power companies seeking U. S. licenses to construct plants along navigable U. S. streams, to exercise the same care and precision in estimating their construction costs. Reason: the U. S. has an option to buy back such licensed plants after 50 years and it refuses to pay an excessive price for them. The Russell ruling is designed to squeeze "water...
...brought with him from his $2,000,000 collection his famed "Mauritius cover." A "cover," in stamp language, is any envelope or package wrapper to which stamps are affixed. Mr. Hind's Mauritius cover, bearing a tuppenny and a one-penny Mauritius stamp, is considered philately's most valuable item, worth $50,000 at least. Mauritius is a knobby little island in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar, once (1598-1710) a Dutch colony, once (1715-1814) a French colony, ever since a British possession...
Angry depositors, just told by the receiver that they might eventually receive 20? instead of 5? or 10? on the dollar, added four more items to the sum of what happens to bad bankers. Each item was an egg thrown at the three manacled convicts on their way to jail. One egg smashed on James Rae Clarke's straw...
Strong is Southern Pacific's position and large its earnings, yet in its position is one bearish item. Like other western roads, the Southern Pacific has watched with growing concern the increase of traffic through the Panama Canal. When transcontinental railroads were first built the driving of a golden spike was the final ceremonial of their completion. But the real gold spike was Cape Horn. Freighters could not compete with freight trains as long as freighters had to wallow around the Horn. But the opening of the Panama Canal furnished a short water route from U. S. coast-to-coast...