Word: reale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...open market at about 55? on the dollar, turned them over to P. S. Savings & Loan in lieu of the rent due. If carried through, this smart practice could have enabled Odell to buy in all the certificates, leaving himself owner of all the company's real estate (now valued...
Joseph Buchhalter, who was also cited last week, is a onetime Denver commodity trader and real estate dealer who devised a scheme for profiting from Henry Wallace's "ever-normal granary" program. Ihe Buchhalter plan entailed simultaneously going short and long on wheat contracts (buying and selling at the same price). Then if the price rose 1?, the profit was immediately realized on the long side while the short was kept open until the price permitted it also to be closed out at a profit. Since the ever-normal-granary program was expected to stabilize wheat prices...
...Author last year showed his knack for popularization in his bestseller, Kindling, the tale of a Banker Bountiful who rescues an unemployed shipyard town. More effective, Ordeal gives him material closer home. Pilot in the Royal Air Force Reserve, Author Shute (real name: Nevil Shute Norway) was deputy chief engineer (later chief) of construction of the airship R100, sailed with her on the first trip to Canada. In 1931 he formed an airplane company, saw it grown to 1,000 employes when he resigned last April. Ordeal to the contrary, Author Shute declares he is no alarmist. Average casualty rate...
This melodramatic, smoldering story is the background of Robert Penn Warren's Night Rider. Nobody agrees about the real Tobacco War. But there is no ambiguity in Warren's vivid account of it. Vigorous, lyrical, balanced, it portrays the actors of that little-known ruckus...
Henry's real name was Henrietta (Handel thrown in for musical effect). Born into a family of amateur tooters and strummers in Melbourne, she attended the Presbyterian Ladies' College there, later studied music at the Leipzig Conservatory. Writing was a sidetrack which turned out to be her main line. She took the masculine pseudonym, she says, because she did not want allowances made...