Word: offering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Extending the hours of labor made it possible for the coal owners to offer higher wages and thus tempt the miners back to work through the "door" of regional agreements which they would not have contracted at the seven-hour wage...
From Kos, one of the twelve Greek Aegean islands seized by Italy during the Italo-Turkish war of 1912, there came last week news of an able ecclesiastical strategem. Just before Dictator Pangalos was overthrown the local Greek Archbishop was commanded by the Italian authorities to offer prayers for Dictator Mussolini. He, wily, offered a simultaneous prayer for Dictators Mussolini and Pangalos, humored the pan-Greek leanings of his congregation. Arrested by the irate Italian police for praying for General Pangalos, he said: "You know that General Pangalos and Dictator Mussolini are great friends. They are both Dictators. They have...
These banks have accumulated much business properties in the chief cities, and have profited from their valuations enhanced by passing years. They are financing more Russian business than banking competitors of any other nationality. They are in Egypt, Turkey, the Balkans. No one could underbid them for a recent offering of Belgian railway bonds, and, it is whispered; with a mischievous wink, at the dining tables of the Hotel Adlon in Berlin, that these German bankers have had the audacity to offer loans to both the Belgian and French governments...
...Dillon, Read has vast plans for German financial penetration, would not needlessly provoke competitors. This week this U. S. investment house expects to offer about $30,000,000 of securities for the German electrical manufacturer, Siemens-Schuckert Halske, will market some in the Netherlands and Germany. The banks already control the German General Electric Co., which dominates the German electrical business...
Last week this merger was a fact-the Universal Gypsum & Lime Co., capitalized for $10,000,000. Soon True, Webber & Co. of Chicago, and Porter & Co. of Boston will offer $2,000,000 of first mortgage 6% bonds against the new corporation's properties...