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...when the Balkan invasion takes place, it is a problem to decide who will do the invading. Italy will want to take over the rich plum of Hungary...
...juiciest overseas plum secured by Yankee traders since inauguration of the Good Neighbor Policy is a 60-year concession to exploit oil lands throughout the whole of Saudi Arabia. This plum fell to Standard Oil Co. of California last summer-almost unnoticed, since U. S. citizens were then so busy watching the European volcano burp. What soft-collared, spatless Standard businessmen had achieved was signal defeat of top-hatted Japanese, Ger man and British diplomats who had been struggling for years to win this Near East prize...
...retail outlet and mill, the company turned a 1937 deficit of $1,654,452 into a 1938 profit of $3,492,238. Last week, with three-quarters earnings of $1,718,458 up 58% from 1938, blue-eyed chubby-cheeked President Frederick Dexter Corley offered a plan and a plum to stockholders...
...plan: to clear up, the $9 a share accrued on 287,225 preferred shares, exchange of each old 6%, $100-par preferred share for ½ share of new preferred and 2¾ common. The plum if the deal goes through: payment of a 30? dividend, first since 1931, on the common...
...military plum fell to one of the grimmest, crudest men in Italy, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani. His family motto is: "An enemy forgiven is more dangerous than a thousand foes." He ruthlessly subdued Libya in 1921-29, led the murderous southern campaign in Ethiopia. Nicked by a would-be assassin's hand grenade in Addis Ababa in 1937, he had 1,600 natives slaughtered. When Mussolini chided him, he is said to have answered: "Mild measures never retained conquered soil." Shortly afterwards he returned to Italy because of "ill health...