Word: options
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modest uniform of a militia corporal. General Balbo stepped forward, received from Il Duce a biretta and gold eagle denoting him Italy's first Air Marshal. Then lieutenant-colonels of the squadron were promoted to colonels; captains to majors, mechanics to non-commissioned officers. A few chose the option of receiving decorations from the King in lieu of promotion...
...grand scale. He merged coal properties around Pittsburgh (many of them Mellon owned) into two great companies and sold their stock to the public. He merged the Pittsburgh traction companies (many of them Mellon owned). T. Mellon & Sons private bank became Mellon National. Andrew and Frick got an option on Carnegie Steel Co. for $160,000,000. Mellon agreed to raise $80,000,000 of the price and asked J. P. Morgan (the elder - the present J. P. Morgan was still in his financial nonage) to take the other half. Morgan refused, said the price was outrageous - and a year...
...reached a state of mind in which they preferred francs or pounds to dollars. They would therefore prefer, he reasoned, sterling bonds paying a low rate of interest to dollar bonds with a higher rate. Abruptly Chancellor Chamberlain offered holders of British 5½% "gold dollar" bonds the option to convert them into sterling bonds paying only...
...whole fuss was made particularly acrimonious because it involved those traditional enemies the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Daily News, thus: Last year Clifford Henderson, longtime air-race promoter, went on the road to place the 1933 meet. Cleveland, which had a five-year option on the races and which took a loss last year, was anxious to sublet this year's meet to another city. Privately the Cleveland committee wanted Promoter Henderson to take the show to the Pacific Coast for two reasons: 1) California wanted it. 2) The farther from Cleveland in 1933, the stronger the comeback...
...with Max Schmeling and who had previously been considered a shade the best of a mediocre group of U. S. heavy-weights-Monster Camera last week qualified for a bout with Max Baer, who knocked out Schmeling (TIME, June 19). Onetime champion Jack Dempsey, who, as promoter, has an option on Baer, last week began negotiations with Madison Square Garden Corp. which controls Carnera. for a Camera v. Baer bout to be held next year...