Word: pars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dirty, mustard-colored building on midtown Broadway, but leases it from the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Co. This organization is nothing more nor less than the owners of the Metropolitan's 35 parterre boxes ("Diamond Horseshoe"). Each box holder owns 300 shares of $100-par stock, and liability for a possible annual assessment up to $15 a share...
...final whose drama was enlivened by balls bouncing off spectators' legs, jumping stymies, hitting flagpoles and miraculously falling into cups. On the 36th green, the match was still all even. On the first extra hole, the titans, each of whom had played the 36 holes in 10 under par, plopped their balls onto the green in 2. Picard was seven feet away from the cup. He tapped his ball gently, watched it sink out of sight. Nelson was five feet away from the cup. He tapped his ball gently, but it did not sink out of sight...
...glands, was discovered in The Netherlands in 1935, and made synthetically in Switzerland the same year from the fat of sheep's wool. In the hands of competent doctors, testosterone has definitely helped cases of pathological sex inadequacy, by bringing the patient's sexual functioning up to par. But there is no evidence that it retards the natural sex decline and general debility of old age. Last week the experiments of Dr. V. G. Korenchevsky of Britain's Lister Institute proved that testosterone prolongs potency in neither man nor beast. Dr. Korenchevsky worked with rats-which...
...rate of earnings, after fixed charges, there was $2.22 available to pay the $3 a share preferred dividend, leaving the common in the red to the tune of 78? per preferred share. In addition Trustee Wardall must decide how to fit 605,964 shares of no par preferred (valued on the books at $30,298,200) and 1,282,938 shares of $5 par common stock into the drug firm's $27,296,031 net worth. So someone must take a licking. SEC will be interested in this reorganization-its first big test of the Chandler...
Fortnight ago athletic A. G. Spalding & Bros, (recently recapitalized) listed its new no par first preferred stock on the New York Curb Exchange. Broker Edward Parry Sykes, 43, appointed specialist in the stock two days before, arrived late at work that morning. Maybe that contributed to his hard luck. There were no bids and no offers. So he made some quick calculations about what price to quote. Considering Spalding's balance sheet and the price of the old preferred, he decided to quote 30 bid, 33 offered (ten shares each...