Word: par
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are still plenty of buyers for the right corporation bonds. A Morgan Stanley syndicate proved it last week by selling at par $100,000,000 American Tobacco Co. 3% debentures so fast they jumped to a 1⅜ point premium...
...Connecticut. You can take her or leave her. Most people want to take her. And Nugent-well, he has a rare sense of comedy, a loping walk, a straightforward manner that is tailor-made to unfreeze the sort of female Hepburn usually plays. Neither of them is up to par in "Without Love," but the real weakness is in the play itself. Barry couldn't decide whether he wanted to write a drawing room comedy or a social drama, so he tried to do both and came out with the two hours of fumbling, amateurish dialogue that is now being...
...Reserve Bank last week came a jolting report: in February, New York City department-store inventories were 49% above a year ago. Manhattan is the No. 1 U.S. shopping center, but hinterland stores are buying too: total U.S. department-store inventories are well over the 100 mark (1923-25 = par), against 73 a year ago, 54 at depression's bottom...
After rolling up two successive record-breaking scores against sub-par squads, the point-crazy Freshman basketball team will meet real opposition in the undefeated Dartmouth '45 quintet tonight at 8 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building...
With 1942 revenues up from higher rates on more traffic, the railroads can probably maintain their 1942 net profits at around $500,000,000, on a par with last year. In comparison with any year since 1930, this is profit indeed (see chart, which covers Class I roads). But for the railroads the '30s were a bankruptcy decade; and bankruptcy is no condition in which...