Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Winston Churchill, dynamic Conservative elder statesman and great British friend of France, conferred in Paris last week with Premier Leon Blum and other high French leaders. On his return to London he conferred by special invitation with Lord Halifax, the new pro-German British Foreign Secretary...
...quite well. But canny Britishers knew equally well that if Hollywood had to make between 75 and 150 quota pictures annually in the British Isles at a minimum cost of $75,000 each, it would undoubtedly find it good business to spend enough extra to insure a world-wide return on its investment...
...Failure to deduct depreciation reserves in arriving at rate base values has permitted the Bell System to earn a return on amounts far in excess of the investment made by the owners." Rates should be based on the "prudent investment" theory espoused by Franklin Roosevelt...
...amended to give FCC authority: 1) to "review, approve or disapprove all Bell System policies and practices promulgated by the central management group"; 2) to "permit regulation of the Western Electric Co. by the FCC as a public utility"; 3) to "fix temporary rates whenever it appears that the return on net book cost is excessive"; 4) "to regulate Bell System financing"; 5) "to limit the scope of Bell System activities to the communications field" (Bell System at various times has been involved in radio, cinema, artificial larynges, photoelectric eyes...
Richard Whitney used his brother's $1,082,000 to return more than $900,000 in securities and cash belonging to the Stock Exchange Gratuity Fund, which he had had in his custody and had pledged for a personal loan. Had George Whitney known that there were several million dollars involved in other fraudulent deals? No, said Dick Whitney wearily, "So far as I know, he knew nothing about the rest until it all became public...