Word: maye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...valuable comparisons. Never before have photographs of an eclipse been taken at periods of a half-hour or more apart. If such photographs now exist they will show whether the flamelike projections of the corona change during that period. Then, significant inferences as to the nature of the corona may be drawn...
...explained: "I am well satisfied with the accuracy of the present figures of the speed of light, but the vacuum may enable a further correction of one or two parts in a million, and, at any event, will serve as a check on the previous method...
...such 20% does not reduce the corporation's profit below the 8% figure. Furthermore, Mr. Unger leider himself is the only member of Samuel Ungerleider & Co. who is on the board of Ungerleider Financial Corp. Thus precautions have been taken against the common accusation that an investment trust may well be profitable to its management, not profitable to its investors...
...although the Federal Reserve could partially control the loans from banks, it could not at all control the loans from corporations. For the loans from corporations were not really credit, but capital-''capital saved by individuals and business firms, a wholly different matter." The Federal Reserve Board may be able to tell banks what they can do with their credit, but it cannot tell individuals and corporations what they can do with their capital. Thus Mr. Simmons on loans to brokers, and soundly thus, in so far as there is undeniably a real difference between loans from banks...
...money now in brokers' loans, it would swell up and burst. There is more capital extant "than the country knows what to do with." The safe place for this capital is in the Stock Market, pictured as a kind of financial safety valve in which surplus funds may harmlessly be blown off. Mr. Simmons did not claim, however, that these surplus funds should remain in the call money market. If, said he, the corporations that are lending money on securities would instead buy those securities (that is, if a corporation bought 1,000 shares of stock instead of putting...