Word: probe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result of a probe recently made of conditions in New Haven and New York, Norton has discovered that both Yale and Columbia are forced to pay taxes on their athletic stadia. The former is assessed a total of more than $20,000 on a $740,000 valuation of the Bowl, adjoining small buildings, and the land on which they stand...
...public ownership propositions in local elections on Nov. 6 had been anything but reassuring. By last week it looked as if the utilities were in for one of their worst spells of political badgering. In Washington the Federal Trade Commission, in the eighth year of its holding company probe, released a fresh batch of hair-raising findings. The new Federal Communications Commission announced a thoroughgoing investigation into American Telephone & Telegraph Co. A.T. & T. stock promptly plunged $10 per share, and President Walter Sherman Gifford felt impelled to assure his security holders that there were no skeletons...
...when the New York Power Authority fired an opening broadside, by declaring that rates are far too high. The heavy artillery swung into action as Washington started an investigation into the affairs of the Telephone Company. whistling bravely, President Gifford, head of the company, stated that he welcomed the probe, but the fact of the matter remains that others do not seem to see eye to eye with him. His stock slipped drearily some 11 points. At the same time the utility average registered a new all-time low, some points below the old bear market barrier. Some day, when...
...withdrawn support; that the Pool was liquidating; that the Government was about to take over the Winnipeg Exchange. All this having been denied, the market steadied. But loud were the cries from the Prairie Provinces, demanding a world-wide investigation and if not that then a crackling short-selling probe...
Last week the eyes of all Canada were turned on Hudson's Bay Co. as a Parliamentary Committee on Mass Buying settled down in Ottawa to investigate the business of the oldest company in North America. Untainted by scandal, the probe was part of Parliament's program for determining the extent and causes of retail price spreads throughout the Dominion. Hudson's Bay Co. was only one of several on the examination table, but because it today controls many of the largest department stores in Canada, it. was easily the most important. At that, the probe...