Word: prices
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Egyptian policeman recently offered to buy a mangy and decrepit old camel for $40, about 20 times its apparent value. The astonished moppets' beady eyes grew even wider as the camel's Arab owner not only turned down this princely offer but refused to sell at any price-and was promptly arrested. Disemboweling the old camel, police found it had been forced to swallow zinc cylinders containing narcotics by Arab smugglers who recently have been driving a surprising number of decrepit camels from Palestine into Egypt. Flushed with success, the Egyptian police promptly disemboweled 18 more old camels...
That Anderson is often concerned with deeply serious ideas, and has had the guts to take the hard way in the theatre, is beyond dispute. But the sound playwright who long ago wrote What Price Glory? and Saturday's Children has gradually given way to a fuzzy cosmos-gazer. Anderson is the most flatulent and pretentious of U. S. dramatists because he seldom does justice to his grandiose conceptions. The verse of Key Largo will not stand comparison with such contemporary dramatic poetry as T. S. Eliot's or Archibald MacLeish's. So little feeling, indeed...
Disadvantages of U. S. music films at present: 1) Their fidelity is poorer than that of the best discs; 2) the mechanism which plays them makes a noise; 3) high price of film makes film recordings four to eight times as expensive as phonograph discs. A more important obstacle: a sudden change from disc to film recording would dislocate the $36,000,000 record business, make all present phonographs, record collections and recording apparatus obsolete...
...that big holding company was about to buy 125,000 shares of stock from its Michigan subsidiary, Consumers Power Co. Mr. Eaton righteously set out a plan to disprove Wendell Willkie's chronic complaint that investors will not buy utilities securities: his Otis & Co. would gladly pay a price "substantially in excess" of the $28.25 that C. & S. was going...
Senator Norris is no longer as young as he once was, and his remarks made less than no sense. Electric rates are not based on per share stock prices; they are based on the total amount of money invested (or supposed to be invested) in the business. Nor could Commonwealth & Southern rob Consumers Power even by buying its stock at 1? a share: Commonwealth & Southern already owns 100% of the common stock of its subsidiary, and regardless of price will still own 100% after the transaction it proposes. For that matter, Commonwealth & Southern would lose nothing by paying...