Word: pers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...land raised the largest flock in a decade. Last week as the fowl began to move to market for the Thanksgiving trade, a surplus threatened. Retail prices in New York City, where 12,000,000 Ibs. of turkey will be consumed before Dec. 1, slid down to 50? per Ib.-15? under last year's price, with poultrymen fearful of further declines before...
...Corn Exchange Bank fell through. Merger terms permitted Corn Exchangers either to exchange their stock for National City on a four-fifths for one basis or to receive $360 a share each. When the Market crashed, Corn Exchange stock accompanied it, at one time reaching a low of $160 per share. Obviously Corn Exchangers would gladly take $360 a share for their stock; equally obvious was National City's reluctance to buy up the entire Cora Exchange capitalization at a point far above its market value. Therefore National City stockholders refused to ratify the merger, and plop!?back went...
...That speculation had been encouraged by the over-conservative financial reports of corporations. There have always been dishonest concerns which rig their books to show $1 per share profit when actually there was no profit. But suppose an ultra-conservative concern, by scaling its assets to minimum and carrying the liabilities at maximum, shows $1 per share profit when someone else thinks they might presumably have shown $2 per share profit; then the incentive to imagination and hence speculation is great and obvious...
...producers to practice leaving the orchestral dais and wandering among the dancers while playing. He has played in many a musical comedy, in bigtime vaudeville. The Prince of Wales is his friend. He spends most of his time west of the Alleghenies, earns from $4,000 to $8,000 per week...
...recent count taken at the postoffice through which most Harvard mail goes on its outward trip reveals that an average of 60 letters a day is sent by students to Wellesley College. To Smith go half as many, 30 per day. Vassar girls receive but 20 a day, and Bryn Mawr places a poor fourth with but 12 daily...