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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was still any doubt that U.S. farmers were holding back vast amounts of grain for even higher prices, it was dispelled last week by Thomas D. Campbell, the world's largest wheat grower...
McCarter Theatre, one of the largest try-out stages in the country, will be the scene of the HTW's Princeton presentation and a Workshop spokesman last night expressed hope that many New York critics would make the one-hour trip for the occasion...
Bill of Divorcement. The Government asked that the 17 defendants be prohibited from acting both as adviser and underwriter for any company, or from having a representative on the board of such a company. Most important, the Government asked that the nine largest firms (Morgan Stanley; First Boston; Dillon, Read; Kuhn, Loeb; Blyth; Smith, Barney; Lehman Bros.; Harriman Ripley; Goldman, Sachs) be prevented from participating in any securities-selling syndicate in which any of the others participates...
Plan of Battle. Most Wall Streeters thought that the suit was designed chiefly to make competitive bidding compulsory. It is now optional for industrial security issues. Unnamed in the suit was the second largest (next to Morgan Stanley) investment banking firm in the U.S.-Halsey, Stuart & Co., of Chicago, which has long advocated such competition. The only financier to applaud the suit was another champion of the same cause, Cyrus Eaton, of Cleveland's Otis...
...aristocracy were, though not particularly powerful, numerous and, though stupid, generally condescending; they often had beautiful American daughters. They lived in castles of the very largest size and were much addicted to . . . foxhunting. This was normally carried on in the height of summer (fog being perhaps less prevalent at that season...