Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fixed interest. Interest on the other two, a 5% convertible general mortgage and a 4% convertible note issue, would be paid only if earned. Net result would be to cut fixed charges from $25,966,000 to $7,503,000 per year. Thus while MOP would avoid insolvency in lean years by paying only fixed charges, it would be weighted down by an increasing burden of contingent charges during prosperous years. Finally, the plan would reduce the common holdings of Allegheny Corp., top Van Sweringen holding company, in MOP from 63% to about 40%, the preferred from...
...brother of the late great Tobacco-Tycoon James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke. In 1931, after bearing him two children, Mary Duke Biddle divorced her husband, who shortly married Mrs. Margaret Thompson Schulze, daughter & heiress of the late Col. William Boyce Thompson, mining tycoon. With a superbly shaped pair of shoulders, lean, muscular Minister Biddle has been voted by tailors one of the "world's ten best-dressed men." He is well-liked by his neighbors in Philadelphia, Manhattan, Newport, Palm Beach and Paris, is expert in tennis, polo, golf, fencing, boxing. His business life has been less happy...
...with the slops!" In the capital of a Communist State such Capitalist carryings on are "intolerable," as the Government Press remarked last week. Unfortunately they were made possible by the late, great Lenin and for a Bolshevik to criticize his acts or decisions is well-nigh treason. During the lean years after the Revolution it was decreed under the NEP policy of Dictator Lenin that houses in Moscow which had fallen into disrepair might be granted as "private possessions" to any Russians willing to put them in good repair at their own expense. In theory such houses are not "private...
...those that overjoyed the U. S. and Danish husbands, joyous Emperor Hirohito set in motion the ponderous, costly mechanism of a Japanese imperial birth. Soon carpenters will whack together in the Fountain Garden the elaborate Maternity Pavilion which has to be built of spotless new materials every time the lean, bespectacled little Emperor's physicians decide to wind his plump and pretty Empress in a white silk maternity belt purified by Shinto priests...
...case of the Commissioners, Joe Kennedy has to hold his own against two lawyers and an accountant. James McCauley Landis was the lean, young Harvard Law School professor who helped write the Securities Act of 1933 while serving on the Federal Trade Commission. Since Ferdinand Pecora resigned to become a New York justice. Commissioner Landis has been the sole SECommissioner with authentic New Deal credentials. Businessmen used to be terrified by his brilliant mind and by his saturnine eyes. Lately they have found him more sympathetic (see cut). Under the Landis wing are SEC's research divisions...