Word: par
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a U.S. corporation makes fancy future savings nowadays by buying its own preferred stock at fire-sale prices. The New York Stock Exchange this week reported that in August alone 30 Big Board companies were reacquiring their own preferred stock-usually at prices far below par. And all over the U.S. thousands of smaller concerns were busily picking up their own preferred at discounts of 10 to 75% on the dollar. Examples...
...rest of the questions are on a par with the one quoted about the Mississippi I am not surprised that he failed to get an answer, and I very much doubt if when it comes to settling world problems, but geographers...
...only 15,000,000 bushels, 20% below last year and the smallest in 21 years. One reason: an oyster takes four to five years to reach full maturity, but because of starfish, drills, other oyster hazards the 1939 baby crop (ticketed for 1942 plates and palates) was below par. But they will taste as good as ever, thanks to drenching August rains which washed larger amounts of minerals from the land onto oyster beds...
...general design to the Allison may also prove its worth at higher altitudes - the late-model P-40F with a Packard-made Rolls-Royce Merlin (British) engine instead of the Allison. According to published reports, the Merlin P-40 has shot up to 30,000 feet (on a par with the Spitfire and the Nazi Focke-Wulf...
...students signing pledges in the House dining halls, making a total of $255 promised. Of this, $151.10 has been already collected. Compared with Yale figures of $597 sold in the first two days, and Princeton results of $750 sold in one day, the Harvard figure is far below par...