Word: parte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part to get around this legal limitation that bank chains such as First Bank Stock Corp. are formed. A holding company acquires control of several banks, operates them under a unified policy. The bank or banks at the head of the chain act as correspondents and depositories of the reserves of the members, all of which retain their individual identity. The important differences in practice are these...
Producers Outlets. Prairie Oil & Gas Co., once part of the extinct Standard Oil, a large producer (but not a retailer), of oil in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Wyoming was last week reported about to merge with Sinclair, thereby acquiring a retailing agency. From jail, Chairman Sinclair admitted "through a friend" that engineers were surveying the properties of both companies, but added happily, "I have no intention of retiring from the oil business...
...trend for gasoline during the summer months has been slightly higher, again a token contrary to overproduction, although it must be discounted because of seasonal demand. Finally there may be some additional demand for oil in China if that country goes to war with Russia, which has been supplying part of its demand for kerosene...
...from Bamberger's earnings of $2,915,375 in 1928. Last week R. H. Macy filed application with the New York Stock Exchange to list 146.385 additional shares of stock. Of this number 69,210 shares (worth at the present market nearly $15,000,000) were given in part payment to the stockholders of L. Bamberger. The remaining 77,175 shares were offered at $145 to Macy stockholders, netting $11,190,375 of which nearly all will be used to complete the purchase. The sale price was therefore $25,000,000 or a little more...
...George Manker Waiters wrote the play Burlesque, they somehow extracted, the maximum amount of sentimentality from a story which was even then not altogether new but which became for the first time extraordinarily successful. How a loyal dancing girl forced her alcoholic, small-time husband into a big part, how she stuck to him when good luck made him forget her, how she bucked him up in failure, was immediately used with variations as a theme for so many pictures that it was hard to believe that Paramount's delayed production of the original, disguised under a title from...