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Word: mops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MOP. Through J. P. Morgan & Co. and Guaranty Trust Co. last week Alleghany Corp.. holding company controlled by the Van Sweringen brothers of Cleveland, offered a $25,000,000 bond and a $12,500,000 preferred stock issue. Securing the issue were $7,000,000 Missouri Pacific convertible bonds, 60,000 shares of Missouri Pacific convertible preferred stock, 100,000 shares of Missouri Pacific common stock (MOP...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Railroad Week | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

Inquisitive people, wondering why Alleghany Corp. has so large an interest in MOP, were told that the Van Sweringen:, are estimated to have one-third control of the road. Suddenly the realization dawned that the Van Sweringens possess the nucleus of the never-achieved ambition of all of the many U. S. railroad builders; a transcontinental system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Railroad Week | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...consolidation plan, MOP will unite with Denver & Rio Grande and Western Pacific. This will afford a complete road from St. Louis to the West Coast. In the East, the Van Sweringens could easily make any of several connections through the various roads they control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Railroad Week | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...opposed to Prohibition because I consider that the last ten years has shown that it is absolutely impossible to enforce. It has led to more crime, more corruption, more hypocrisy than any other law. . . . People say if you mop up the wet spots in cities the thing is done. I have never seen more vicious drinking in my life than I have seen in Indiana and in South Carolina. I have never gone anywhere in the country where the liquor law was observed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Wet Noise | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

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