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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Postal's problem is not unlike that of many a common carrier. Its annual revenues, now about $28,000,000, are not sufficient to meet fixed charges after paying all expenses. The bondholders will have to take at least a temporary cut in their coupon rate, and the preferred stockholders, who have had no return for four years, will probably be asked to accept a less preferred position in the capital structure. Knottiest question will be the treat-ment of the common stock, all owned by I. T. & T. The Brothers Behn not only issued more than...
...characteristically crossed him in a business deal. Allied with the equally testy Publisher James Gordon Bennett, who shared his animosity for the sly manipulator of Erie-R. R., John Mackay strenuously laid cables and strung wires to compete with Western Union, then a Gould favorite. The ensuing rate wars were scandalous, but at the founder's death in 1902 the Mackay companies were still a worthy heritage...
...Hepburn promptly declared war. He spoke darkly of special, if not punitive, taxes on "surplus money," refused audiences to banking emissaries, threatened to withdraw all Provincial balances from commercial banks, announced plans for 30 new branches of the Government-owned savings bank system, upped the system's interest rate from 2% to 2½%, to tempt deposits away from private institutions...
...rapid pulse, moist skin and loss of weight, despite a good appetite, suggest the disease. The patient is restless and irritable, laughs and cries easily, becomes angry and excited at the least provocation, is comparatively insensitive to cold. An unfailing test for exophthalmic goitre is the basal metabolism rate, measured by a simple breathing machine. If after a long rest in bed, her lungs consume 50% to 100% more oxygen than a normal person, the suspect undoubtedly has an overactive thyroid. Women are much more often afflicted than...
Great writers and musicians have abounded in Russia but there never was a first-rate Russian painter or sculptor. Out of the second-rate last week Manhattan's Hammer Galleries assembled a collection of 86 canvases entitled "One Hundred and Fifty Years of Russian Painting...