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...phrases. Flowers were ordered for her daily . . . purple orchids. These carried a special message . . . and when she appeared she always wore a single one high on the left shoulder." Thus did the late Irwin H. ("Ike") Hoover, longtime chief usher at the White House, describe in the Satevepost the nine-month courtship and marriage in 1915 of the 28th President of the U. S. and Mrs. Edith Boiling Gait...
...Coca-Cola 8,342 8,802 The Bureau of Railway Economics reported the net operating revenue of 149 Class 1 railroads for the first nine months up to $340,000,000 from $197,000,000 a year ago. Whereas most oil companies did not show nine-month improvement over 1932, most of them showed better profits for the third quarter than for the second quarter of the year: Third Second...
...John Stockholder could still afford to clap his hands as he saw other companies show deficits reduced, deficits turned into profits, and profits turned into bigger profits for the first nine months of 1933. Even the few companies whose nine-month profits were smaller than a year ago showed growing earnings for the last three months. Some reports to John Stockholder...
...securities, minus the traditional "payable in gold" clause. Day after President Roosevelt's signature had legally outlawed that provision in all public and private debt contracts. Secretary Woodin announced a $500,000,000 issue of 2⅞% five-year Treasury notes, a $400,000,000 issue of 1% nine-month certificates to refinance maturing short-term obligations, pay interest on the public debt and finance the Roosevelt recovery program. In three days the combined issues were oversubscribed six times, clear indication that U. S. investors still had plenty of faith in their Government's paper dollar...
...these rumors and the attendant stock decline was not widely known outside Wall Street. September cigaret consumption was 3.9% below that of September 1931, but fewer cigarets have been smoked this year than every month last year except August, and September's showing was better than the nine-month average, which was 10.12% below 1931's. Careful readers of financial pages could find an occasional paragraph tucked away in a corner reporting the price rumors and citing the popularity of cigarets as the cause, but newspapers were not inclined to go deeply into the subject-not so much...