Word: margin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last November his party won the elections by the unprecedently narrow margin of a majority of six in the Quebec Legislature. Allied with the Conservative opposition was the new reform Liberal party, Action Liberale Nationale, of Paul Gouin, son of Taschereau's predecessor as Premier. Since then Conservative Maurice Duplessis, Opposition leader, has pried into the Liberal's solidified habits of graft, got the Legislature to start a Public Accounts Committee investigation. The committee was heavily packed with old-guard Liberals but Representative Duplessis was far too smart for them. At last week's committee meeting...
...interruption until the post-War depression. Through most of the 1920's bonds climbed steadily, then started to fall again when money tightened during the last purple days of the stockmarket boom. The present rise dates from 1932, bonds as usual leading actual industrial recovery by a wide margin...
...ratio of three shares of new stock for each ten shares of old. A curious feature of this plan is that Jesse Holman Jones's RFC will carry any Manufacturers Trust stockholder who wants to subscribe to 100 shares or less on what amounts to a 10% margin. On listed stocks the Government requires a margin...
...Jones has nothing to lose by carrying this type of margin account in RFC. Even if he has to take over the stock he will stand all even. Instead of possessing Manufacturers Trust notes, he will hold Manufacturers Trust preferred stock, which the bank would have issued to RFC in the first place had not New York State banking law, since changed, required the use of notes...
...year sales were about the top for a 2O? brand. In Paul Jones there was little money at 10?. Nevertheless, Paul Jones and other 10? brands had scared the Big Four into deep price-cutting on Camels, Chesterfields, Lucky Strikes and Old Golds, with the result that the profit margin for dealers was down to almost nothing...