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...giant investment trust for small-capital men. Theory: Let a workman take, for example, $200 to the proposed trust. For $200 he would be allowed to buy $500 worth of stock, borrowing the other $300 from a bank or subsidiary company, with his stock as collateral. He would then repay the $300 at the rate of $25 a month. Thus might small-capital men, instead of spending on the installment plan for radios, motors, refrigerators, invest in installments in sound "rich-men's" securities...
...handing you herewith check . . . for $2,781,158.30 . . . to repay in full to date with interest your investment in the securities of the Brooklyn Publishing Corp. [which controls the stock of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle], the Albany Press Co. (The Knickerbocker Press, Albany Evening News) and the Ithaca Journal-News...
...Hudson River, is making money at a rate which indicates a $5,000,000 profit for 1929. Last year's profit was about $3,600,000, and 1929 traffic has shown a 25 per cent increase. Tunnel profits are shared jointly by New York and New Jersey to repay State construction costs...
...extent of the culture that was developed on our own continent before the Europeans arrived. One of the most interesting of these civilizations was that of the Mayas who reached a high point in sciences and the arts while still the victims of almost incredible superstitions. It will well repay the journey to Peabody Museum to hear Professor Dixon discuss them this morning at 11 o'clock...
...hard to believe in her latest characterization, that of a decayed but kind-hearted actress named Duckie. This actress, once highly popular behind footlights, has become, through the re versals of circumstance, a janitress. But she continues doing many good turns every day, for which the recipients repay her badly...