Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Installmentwise: Battleship building takes over four years, cruisers and smaller craft proportionately less. Therefore, the $667,499,000 budgeted for naval building this year cannot be completely put in circulation for three to four years. Bethlehem Steel's order book now contains $71,000,000 of naval business (total unfilled orders: $192,000,000, largest in peacetime history) but, staggered over three or four years, this comes out as only $18-23,000,000 a year, not nearly enough to support the company's overall production much above the rate for the steel industry as a whole...
...woods." The three: Brokers Robert R. Young and Frank B. Kolbe and a Woolworth company heir, Allan P. Kirby. Mr. Ball sold them 1,933,810 shares (43%) of the common stock in Alleghany Corp., the holding company just below Midamerica. This stock had cost Mr. Ball less than $270,000. He sold it for $4,000,000 cash, plus a $2,375,000 note payable May 5, 1939 and secured by 1,200,000 of the Alleghany shares...
...were, like them, bland absentees. After paganism, when Christianity started trying to hatch out a more personal and better world, the Muse turned from goddess to angel-like Dante's Beatrice, who spoke to him from heaven. But with the Renaissance, poets found their angels nearer home and less angelic: in Elizabethan times, on the streets and in the Court; in the 18th Century, in the boudoir or the salon; among the Romantics, anywhere outdoors. But whether divine, semi-divine or human, the Muse was always a woman...
...they still do, to hear his lectures and readings of his own poetry. In a creaking, cranky voice as of one grinding his own poetic ax, and with the mannerisms of a Yankee hired man who knows more than he lets on and somewhat despises his boss for knowing less, he dropped hints that poetry was the most important thing in the world. Then he would read from his own poems, as evidence...
...ever less than a treason...