Word: parred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...camp-followers scattered to their homes (see p. 12). Manhattan's visitors last week were estimated as high as 500,000, spent about $6,500,000. But when most cinemansion box offices came to count up their receipts they disgustedly found their weekly grosses were not above par but below it. Milling crowds, jammed doorways, the continuous free street show put on by the anticking Legionnaires was the answer...
Into Shanghai's foreign settlements from the war-torn countryside nearly a million and a half panic-stricken Chinese refugees had surged by last week, some with cholera, some with expected smallpox and all with ravenous stomachs. "They constitute a menace to the safety of Shanghai on a par with the menace of the war itself. . . . God alone knows what will happen!" groaned International Settlement Municipal Councilman W. H. Plant. "The public little realizes the dangers Shanghai is facing. . . . These 1,500,000 people are evidently going to remain indefinitely. Food riots, epidemics and disease seem certain...
When questioned as to the rumors that the cataloguing of Widener books is not up to par, Mr. Metcalf declared that, since the library takes in over 350 new volumes a day, complaints about the speed of cataloguing new books are unavoidable. He revealed that Widener alone has a staff of 50 persons who spend all their time cataloguing. Some volumes, the cataloguing of which has been held up for a long time, will not be catalogued, he said, if it does not seem worthwhile. He also mentioned the method of "short cataloguing" used on certain books for which...
Despite these nice profits, Esquire-Coronet (a new corporation which consolidated Esquire Inc. and Coronet Inc. in March) has not yet declared a dividend on its 500,000 shares of $1 par stock, of which President David Smart owned outright 181,450 shares, Secretary-Treasurer Alfred Smart 83,125, Vice-President John Smart 12,500, Co-Publisher Weintraub 33,010.* To make way for the first major public financing by a publishing house since the Securities Act of 1933, Dave Smart sold to the underwriters for $13.75 a share 35,000 shares, Alfred Smart 6,000 and others the rest...
...real matter for worry. The squabble grew out of old "A. P.'s" decision to turn Transamerica, once the world's largest bank holding company, into an investment trust. One move of this program was a splicing of Transamerica stock, one share for two, reclassined from no par to $2 par. When the San Francisco Exchange took occasion to criticize this maneuver, "A. P." did not apply for a continuance of Transamerica's listing...