Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Telephone & Telegraph. President Walter Sherman Gifford told the 350 A. T. & T. stockholders who turned out for the annual meeting in Manhattan last week that their company's profits for the twelve months through March 1936 were $130,000,000 compared to $118,000,000 for the same period through March 1935. Those figures were not for the entire Bell System, earnings of which were reported only through February. But to find out what the parent company's profits were for the March quarter, an A.T. & T. stockholder had to 1) deduct earnings for the first three months...
Last week this letter was made public day after Lehman hastily dispatched new prospectuses to its dealers, announcing in a rider that the underwriters were trading in Flintkote and would continue "to make such purchases and to execute such orders in such amounts and at such times for such period or periods as they shall deem advisable." For all bankers and dealers this exchange of lawyers' letters was significant because most of them have been pegging new issues to some extent without admitting it in their prospectuses...
...prime example of his period and place, Noah Webster (1758-1843) was a school-teacher who by zeal and persistence became a Citizen Fixit to the whole U. S. Because he insisted on bursting out of his own bailiwick to mend his neighbors' manners, he was not popular; but before he died the U. S. was proud of him. Even more than his Dictionary his famed blue-backed Speller (which sold nearly 100 million copies before it went out of use) knit U. S. dialects together into one more-or-less standard tongue, poured a patriotic iron tonic into...
After it defaulted, Price Bros. had a short period of grace to make good. Knowing there were only some $11,000,000 of bonds out against saw mills, power sites, 8,000 square miles of timber, two newsprint mills capable of 1,100 tons daily, the bondholders' committee prepared to hang on. Meanwhile many a potent user and producer of newsprint eyed the ailing company's assets with interest. When the bankruptcy ax finally fell eight months later, officers began to appear from such sources as Britain's Bowater's Paper Mills Ltd., a syndicate headed...
Although lost to the world for a period of 100 years, the priceless masterpiece was re-introduced by Mendelssohn at a concert in Berlin in 1829, precisely a century after its initial performance by Bach...