Word: parred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the Treasury invites subscriptions for a new issue, anyone can write himself down for a block by depositing 10% of the purchase price on the line, the balance payable on delivery. Because the Treasury takes care to make new issues attractive, they invariably command a premium over the par purchase price, thus anyone can take a free ride on what amounts to 10% margin by selling his allotment before delivery. Author Porter figures that some $80,000,000 worth of free rides have been taken on the $15,000,000,000 in Treasury notations since...
...University's demonstration elementary school, pupils are taught typewriting from grades five to eight as a means of improving their English, spelling and com position. Teachers announced that children learned typing twice as fast on the Dvorak keyboard, were able to exceed 50 correct words a minute (par for professional: 70 words...
...Last week Hearst Consolidated Class A stock, par value $25, was selling for $6.25; Hearst-Brisbane (real estate) $1,000 bonds...
...picture of his new job. Running WPA he had served the nation's bottom third. Now he served "the two-thirds of the population earning their living by what we consider to be the normal process of our economic system." To bring his former clients up to par with his new ones, "if new jobs are to be provided, the national income must be increased." National income will not rise without Business confidence, and on this paramount point Mr. Hopkins made an admission never before heard so frankly from a New Dealer. Said he: "Among many businessmen there exists...
...ORLEANS--Henry Picard of Hershey, Pa.. shot his worst golf in four rounds today, but finished five strokes ahead in the $10,000 Crescent City Open with 284, four under par, and took $2000 top-prize money...