Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...improbable before. It is the small stock holder in public utilities who is the chief sufferer as T.V.A. plans are being carried out, and it is the small business man who finds the N.R.A. particularly oppressive. It requires little imagination to see the administrative statisticians conjuring up a fantastic loss from the hypothetical "sale of power," plus extravagant legal charges. An "adequate" bond would undoubtedly require a large slice of a millionaire's fortune. Large, wealthy corporations also would hesitate about putting up such a bond, particularly when the bond would be for-felt if their suit failed...
Late in 1931 Mr. Mellon sold to the Mellon-controlled Union Trust Co. of Pittsburgh 123,622 shares of Pittsburgh Coal Co., claiming for tax purposes a loss of more than $5,500,000. Exactly 118 days later Union Trust sold the shares to Coalesced Co. for the exact purchase price plus 6% interest and transfer taxes, even though the market value of the shares had since declined. Created by Mr. Mellon in 1929 as a private holding company, Coalesced Co. is an interesting family treasure chest which Government counsel asserted to be nothing but a tax-dodging device...
...pert newshawk but Scotland Yard itself numbered the Brighton murders in an official announcement after the second was discovered: "In order to prevent confusion and loss of public interest in the original Brighton trunk crime, it seems necessary, in view of what has appeared in one or more London daily papers, that the public should be definitely informed that the head and arms in the original Brighton trunk crime have not been discovered. . . . Again, as a means of preventing confusion, perhaps the original Brighton trunk crime should be Brighton Trunk Crime No. 1 and the discovery on July...
...weekend trip as a whole was a success, except for the loss to the Navy, which mars an otherwise undefeated season. Six victories have been chalked up, and the prospects for Yale and Princeton seem rosy with the Crimson leading by comparative scores...
Yale has not been without its troubles this year, however, for the start of the season found Bob Beckwith, star on last year's yearlings, out with an appendectomy. Beckwith was one of the finest natural athletes seen on the Yale campus for some years, and his loss was a severe one. Then too internal dissension made itself felt on the squad, and a complete unity has yet to be realized...