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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...servicemen rushed to buy their first civvies, American Woolen found itself so prosperous that in 1946 it declared a $12 common dividend, saw its stock soar from 29½ to 70¾. In 1948, it rang up the biggest sales ($197 million) in its history and earned $15.88 per share. But now, said Pendleton, American Woolen, like other weavers, was in a double squeeze that was choking off sales...
...purchased in the United States. Foreign currencies can be purchased at the Harvard Trust at the going U. S. market rate. Downing will be glad to help students planning a summer abroad work out their monetary exchange problems. Comparison of Official and Free Market Rates In National Currencies Per One United States Dollar. Official Bank Rate March 15 Rate in the U.S. Country Austria (shillings) 10 30 Belgium (francs) 46.8 49 Czechoslovakia (koruny) 50 600 Finland (markkas) 135 400 France (francs) 214 370 Italy (lire) 575 650 Netherland (guilders) 2.6 4 Spain (pesetas) 10.5 31 Switzerland (francs) 4.28 3.98 Countries...
...citizens had socked away $10 million in Government bonds during the war, "and it's still back there in those lockboxes, at least $8 or $9 million of it," said Russell Martin, president of Tipton's largest bank. Many mortgages had been paid off in full; the per capita debt was the lowest in 25 years...
Birdmen in Serge. From the start, Trippe's was a seagoing airline. His "captains" and "first officers," dressed in blue serge, talked in knots instead of miles per hour. On long overwater flights they flew by celestial navigation. While they piled up experience on the short Caribbean hops, their boss, with vast energy, got ready to send them across the oceans. He worked with planemakers to turn out the flying boats he needed, sent Charles A. Lindbergh, a consultant to Pan Am, on Great Circle survey flights to the Orient. Trippe's agents roamed south, east and west...
This leaves about $500 per House which must be collected by May 1 to meet a deadline on legal assurance forms. If the money isn't raised by this time, the whole project will collapse...