Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...estimate: 14,915,000 bales. Latest traders' estimate: 15,000,000 bales. Market (New York, middling upland): Last week, 18? per lb.; last year, 19 4/5? per lb. Within the month the Farm Board has advanced $7,250,000 to cotton growers' coöperatives to offset slumped prices. Corn. Prices fell sharply due to an increased crop estimate. Latest U. S. estimate: 2,528,000,000 bu. (previous estimate: 2,456,000,000 bu.). Market (Chicago, No. 2 yellow): last week, $1.11 per bu.; last year...
...flag-draped hall and a telegraphed introduction from Cuban President Gerardo Machado: ''We are sure that she will demonstrate the sympathy the sentiment and artistic capacity of the Cuban people." But unfortunately Soprano Otero was unequal to the occasion. Her pleasing, natural tone could not offset faulty breathing. Once her over-taxed voice ran down like a forgotten phonograph. Accompanist Frank La Forge tried to save the situation with a skillfully improvised finale. Emma herself might have followed the accepted procedure for erring singers: hold a pose and hope for the best. Instead she grimaced, vanished through...
Chief difference between the McCormick and Wilson plans is that Heiress McCormick borrowed at 6% against stocks that might rise and offset interest charges, while Heiress Wilson borrowed at 6% against collateral that probably yields no more than 5%. The reason generally suspected to be in back of the Wilson move is that her collateral probably consists mostly of bonds that have no ready market. As the certificates are outstanding until 1932 and the collateral does not have to remain fixed, Heiress Wilson can therefore gradually sell her municipals as a market for them appears; meanwhile...
...would appear to be thriving. Yet while the number of cars manufactured during the first eight months of 1929 showed a 37.2% increase* over the same period last year, this was almost entirely accounted for by the phenomenal rise in Ford production. In July and August this Ford increase offset the decline shown by other manufacturers and accounted for approximately 40% of the total cars produced in the U. S. and Canada. These facts are illustrated in the following table compiled by the Wall Street Journal...
...both at Leavitt and Peirce's and on Harvard Square. The organizers of the movement acted with the two-fold purpose of protesting against Mayor Nichols' actions, and of endorsing the Guild in its presentation of the play in Quincy on Monday evening. They hope that the petition will offset to a large extent the attacks which have been made on the Guild and "Strange Interlude" by various members of the local clergy...