Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...himself, ruminates many a U. S. man-in-the-street, dazzled by world-wide Fords, by General Motors balance sheets, by Chrysler skyscrapers. But such envious persons might well harken to the story of David D. Buick. Mr. Buick was in on the automobile ground floor. He was working on his Buick before the old Ford Motor Co. was incorporated. But no millionaire became Mr. Buick. No break got he. He died in Detroit last week, obscure, impoverished. And when he went to his work, he walked...
Rumor, last week, busied itself with the future of big Oilman Robert W. Stewart. He might, thought Rumor, merge brains, experience and personality with Horse & Oilman Harry F. Sinclair, either in the Sinclair Oil Co. or in a to-be-constructed oil combination. Colonel Stewart's future is discussable because his potent past was abruptly closed last week at Whiting, Indiana. There, in a public building, he presided with great cheer at the annual stockholders meeting of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, of which he was Chairman. Profits for 1928, said he, were $83,000,000, a fifty million...
Bonds v. Stocks. Increasingly, finance committees of "big" U. S. corporations have voted to redeem bonds, issue additional common stock. One obvious and bullish reason might be to reduce annual fixed interest charges. Another reason, less obvious and less bullish, might be a desire to take precautions against hard times ahead. Should the U. S. find itself, in 1935 or 1940, in a general business depression, corporations would be glad of flexible capital structures. No such bearish suggestions, however, accompanied these developments...
...Last week, also, an increase of capital stock by $500,000,000 was planned by directors of mighty A. T. & T. Stockholders surmised that this move, like those of U. S. Steel and Anaconda, might lead to bond redemption. A. T. & T. will thus break one more world's record in size. It will be the first corporation with $2,000,000,000 capital...
...into aviation financing, which so far has interested only a few of the big houses?e. g., Hayden, Stone & Co., National City. P. W. Chapman, Pynchon. Salesmen of Aviation Corp. stock (which is not to be confused with Richard F. Hoyt's Aviation Corp. of America) suggested that it might become the Electric Bond & Share of aviation...