Word: lumping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Correspondents learned from authoritative sources in the City and at the Treasury last week that Sir Frederick will propose: 1) to settle Britain's debt once & for all by a lump sum payment in Roosevelt dollars (worth 65? each last week); 2) to raise this lump by selling British dollar bonds to U. S. investors...
...somewhat lonely lump in Cuba's pot of ajiaco criollo, President Grau San Martin began to pick a Cabinet. He put in a customs house man, Jose Barquin, as Secretary of the Treasury; an obscure doctor, Antonio Guiteras, as Secretary of the Interior; the son of the famed discoverer of the yellow fever mosquito, Dr. Carlos J. Finlay as Secretary of Sanitation and Public Instruction; a rich architect and engineer, Eduardo J. Chibas, who was a de Cespedes man, as Secretary of Public Works. Meanwhile last week the rest of the hash was still boiling...
...towering lump of limestone called Gibraltar, British military authorities last week arrested a German student named Wupperman, whom they suspected of photographing fortifications. Wupperman was released after brief examination, but the quiet dignity of the procedure was soothing to the pride of His Majesty's troops. It atoned somewhat for the undignified time they had lately had with another offender. An Englishwoman and her daughter had been attacked and troops had been called out to hunt down the attacker-one of Gibraltar's famed Barbary apes, last wild monkeys in Europe...
...apparent that, unlike his old associate Col. Luke Lea, who is fighting extradition to North Carolina where a six-to-ten year sentence awaits him, Rogers Clark Caldwell was coming back fast. He signed contracts for the second biggest tobacco deal in history. Biggest was R. J. Reynolds (Camels) lump purchase of 60,000,000 lb. of burley from a growers' association several years ago. Last week Mr. Caldwell was not far behind. For approximately $3,750,000 he agreed to buy 40,000,000 lb. of dark-fired tobacco from two big cooperatives, giving him a practical corner...
...month ago the New York Stock Exchange discovered that of the $92,000,000, "U. S. Government and other marketable securities," which Allied Chemical & Dye put down in a lump sum among "current" assets on its balance sheet, the largest part consisted of the company's own stock. Forthwith the Exchange ordered Allied stock be stricken from trading on Aug. 23, if in the meantime Allied did not give its stockholders more & better information. A grave defeat was this for Orlando Franklin Weber, autocrat of Allied, who for a full year had urbanely held the Exchange's Listing...