Word: newe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...beat the band. At the peak of his career he visited the U. S., conducted one gigantic concert with a chorus of 20,000 and 100 assistant conductors, was so frightened by the experience that he scurried back to Vienna for good. Seventeen years later, in 1889, a new popular musical movement had begun to sweep Johann and his waltzes into history. It came from the U. S. and it was in 4/4, not ¾, time. The Waltz Kings were succeeded by a March King: John Philip Sousa...
...object of the deal was to put $3,500,000 into Consumers Power, which recently dedicated a new 35,000-kilowatt plant at Kalamazoo, is constructing a new 70,000-kilowatt plant in Bay City. This will fatten up the equity in Consumers Power in preparation for issuance of $28,500,000 in bonds ($10,000,000 for new money, $18,500,000 for refunding...
...Otis & Co. is really interested in buying common stocks of utility companies for investment purposes, they can purchase at book value . . . the stock of the Detroit Edison Co. . . . They can likewise buy the stock of Consolidated Edison Co. of New York ... at approximately 60% of book value...
...industry, York Ice Machinery Corp., was last week very busy making refrigerator equipment for new U. S. warships...
...from 1938) on 19,184,000 tons of freight (22% over 1938). Last week American Trucking Associations, Inc. turned loose even more striking figures. Based on returns from 193 firms, it reported that in October, for the third successive month, highway motor trucking hit a new all-time peak. October traffic was up 5.4% from September, 33.4% over 1938, 23.2% over 1937, 51.3% above the 1936 monthly average...