Word: pers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan for his turn to see President Hoover was a slender little gentleman who looked not unlike a brownskin edition of Secretary Mellon (but with wider lips). This, a very finicky gentleman with his own chef, an imposing retinue of secretaries, an in come of $3,000,000 per year and a family tree 900 years old, was the much-married Maharajah of Kapurthala in the Punjab, accredited representative to the League of Nations of Their Highnesses the Indian ruling princes. Precisely what he wished to discuss with President Hoover in private, the Maharajah of Kapurthala was not pre pared...
...fleet of vessels was sold for $325,000. including only $28,674 cash. Then the purchasers were given a mail contract worth between $350.000 and $450,000 per annum...
...Dining Halls, in addition to catering for the Freshman Class, served an average of 1622 meals per day in the upperclassmen's cafeteria, at an average cost to the patron of 44 6 cents per meal...
...found themselves face to face with the president of one of the largest corporations in the U. S. The Senators were lucky because they had the great industrialist before them as a witness in his own behalf. He had resigned (for as long as necessary) from the $100,000-per-year presidency of International Harvester Co. ($350,000,000) to accept President Hoover's appointment as $12,000-per-year chairman of the Federal Farm Board. The Senators had the power to question him closely in deciding whether he was fit for the job. It was the chance...
They asked him about International Harvester stock and his holdings in it. He showed that the stock had lately (while he was running the company) ranged upwards from $224.25 to $394.25 per share. When it was split 4 for 1, it reached $142 per share. His holdings, he said, are now worth about one million dollars, a fraction of 1% of the capitalization...