Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dollars & Men. Had the U. S. not entered the War quite a number of U. S. citizens might have made far more money. On the $500,000,000 British and French loan of October 1915 a group of American bankers headed by the House of Morgan made $9,000,000 on the spread between the purchase price (96) and the selling price (98). Of this sum the Morgan firm received $66,000. From its 1% commission as purchasing agent for England and France Morgan & Co. got $30,000,000. All that ended when the U. S. entered the War, when...
...money profits of neutrals rose with war-induced inflation but the profits were for the most part taken from them by the high cost of living. Everywhere war produces a shortage of the goods that make for real prosperity in peace. For war is the opposite of free trade. A world war shuts off trade, like shutting the gate of a dam, at one clap, and it may take years for a mutually profitable exchange of goods and services to reestablish itself...
...finish of oldtime Actor Charles Coburn as Alec's conventional father. Surprising to many cinemaddicts, however, will be the effectively venomous performance, as Alec's mercenary wife, of Cinemactress Kay Francis. Having worked out a long-term contract with Warner Bros, which kept her in the top money (over $5,000 a week) but buried her as the suffering woman in a string of B pictures, sleek Cinemactress Francis in her first free-lance job shows that she still belongs in the A's, that, properly encouraged, she can even pronounce the letter r without wobbling...
...improvident Spanish woman named Herminia Peralta, whose great-grandfather had once owned, by land grant from the Spanish Crown, nearly all the territory now covered by the cities of Oakland and Berkeley. To his widow Publisher Dargie left a half-interest in the Tribune, with the privilege of raising money to buy the other half at a court sale to settle his cash bequests. Needing cash herself, Widow Dargie got it from a friend of her husband, Congressman Joseph Russell Knowland...
...Germany, at 60 pfennig on the 100 pfennig Reichsmark (good only in Germany). If SEC had accepted the application, bondholders would have got $35,000,000 of bonds (1937 and '38 interest) which at 3% would have netted them about $1,000,000 a year in usable money. British holders of German bonds got a better deal which gave them about $15,000,000 real money on $30,000,000 owing in 1937 and 1938 interest...