Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week they announced and financed a new Allegheny Corp., holding company for their railroad stocks. An offering of $35,000,000 5% convertible bonds, par 100, was quickly sold (through J. P. Morgan & Co., National City Co., First National Bank, and Guaranty Co.) at a 10-point premium. Later offerings were to include 250,000 shares of preferred and 3,500,000 shares of common stock...
...Union merger. Chief obstacle to a union between Radio Corp. of America Communications, Inc., and the Western Union Telegraph Co. is the White Act, Federal law forbidding the merger of wire and radio companies. It is believed, however, that Radio and Western Union will soon conclude an operating agreement. Later an effort will be made to amend the White Act to permit a merger...
Student answers are filed on a chart to which is later added information in re their curricular and extracurricular activities, their activities and interests during the summer. Interviews with professors about work or ambitions are also noted, and the subsequent results...
...years later he arrived at the offices of Henry Ford. He was then a young man of 30, sandy-haired, straight as a spruce, well-muscled. In the legal department of the Ford Motor Co. were 21 hopeful lawyers. Each of them would have liked the distinction of being chief counsel for one of the greatest businesses in the world. But Lawyer Longley disappointed the hopes of all 21 in exactly two years, and then still further disappointed nine of them by cutting the department's force to twelve...
...compositions for piano, for orchestra. The artist grew but the man lost money, friends, reputation. When at 42, he died, it was alone, in a hospital, of delirium tremens. Then was he first hailed as a giant, then was his monument erected in the public square. Now, 50 years later, musical people find him increasingly important...