Word: rying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Near the centre of this big southwestern triangle is a man-made lake near Hot Springs, Ark. called Catherine. On an island in the lake is Couchwood, the spacious summer home of Utilities Tycoon Harvey Crowley Couch, onetime (1932-34) RFC director, chair-man of Louisiana & Arkansas Ry. and Arkansas' richest citizen. The four C's in Harvey Couch's book read: "Courage, Confidence, Concentration and Co-operation will enable us to make Arkansas and this section of the Southwest the most self-sustaining, the most prosperous part...
...torrent which drove 200,000 from their homes. Telephone service was disrupted. The city was put on a two-hour water ration each day. As sewage backed up in the municipal disposal system, two typhoid inoculation stations were established. Bus and trolley service was abandoned and only the Southern Ry. continued running out of town. Electric generating plants by the river faltered, then quit on Sunday night, plunging a city of 330,000 into darkness. All police were put on 24-hr, duty and companies of National Guardsmen were sent to help them keep the peace. With the water rising...
...Board were stocks selling for less than $10 per share. Churned in volume lately have been such "penny" favorites as International Paper & Power Class C ($6.50), Elk Horn Coal preferred ($5.50), General Realty & Utilities ($4.50), Alleghany Corp. ($4.50), Commonwealth & Southern ($3.50), Pierce Petroleum ($2.75), Seaboard Air Line Ry. ($1.75), Consolidated Textile...
Last week they found him in the person of Herbert Fitzpatrick, vice-president & general counsel of Chesapeake & Ohio Ry...
...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 ($1) since...