Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...behavior, Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board, which controls margins and credit, and Chairman James McCauley Landis of the Securities & Exchange Commission, which has the police powers. On leaving the White House, Chairman Landis said nothing. Chairman Eccles reiterated the well-known fact that the long rise has been largely a cash affair-a pronouncement which in another Administration might have been taken as a bullish tip straight from the White House. But the official attitude toward the stock-market was characterized in Washington last week as sternly "vigilant...
...Attorney General (TIME, Jan. 1, 1933). In that operation Atlas was strong-armed from a Depression low of $1 per share to a 1933 high of nearly $35, only to relapse the same year to $1.50. Last winter Atlas climbed rapidly from $9.50 per share to about $30, a rise which SEC says it ''has reason to believe and does believe" was not spontaneous...
...tide of extra dividends continued to rise last week. Chrysler Corp. voted a $5.50 payment, bringing its dividend total for the year to $12 per share. Gulf Oil Corp. proposed to split its stock two for one, added a 50? payment to the regular 25? quarterly. Eastman Kodak ordered an extra of 75? per share, Columbian Carbon $1.25, Jewel Tea $2. In some cases the tax law has prompted resumption of dividends, Western Maryland Ry. last week voting the first payment ($7) on its first preferred since it was reorganized in 1917 and Libby, McNeill & Libby the first common dividend...
SAND CASTLE - Janet Beith - Stokes ($2.50). Diffuse three-generation chronicle tracing the rise and decline of a Manchester textile manufacturing family; a second novel by the $20,000 prize-winning English author of No Second Spring...
...that Godfrey loves her because he put her, dressed in evening clothes, into the cold shower. But, there being no intention to slight that genius of suavity, William Powell, it must be conceded that none other could preserve the impeccable dignity that characerizes him throughout the picture, and gives rise to the hilarious contrast. Alice Brady is perfect as the index of what Carole's madness comes to when it matures, and therefore makes us feel sorry for Godfrey. And nosegays to Gall Patrick, the sour note in the family, and Eugene Pallette, the father of the raving crew...