Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago the road was bankrupt, made so by the panic of 1893. A foreclosure sale wiped out hobbling debts; a new management revitalized it. Someone with good persuasive powers brought the late Edward Payson Ripley (1845-1920), to be its president. Ever since, the Atchison has paid its preferred dividends. Common dividends began in 1901, with $3.50. They changed successively to $4 $4.50, $6, $5, $5.50, $6, then (3 years ago) $7. For more than a year there have been extra $3 dividends on the common stock. That extra-fruit of "Old Man" Ripley's tillage, of present...
...clock the Liberal Club will entertain at lunch Miss Evelyn Ellis, leading lady of "Porgy", the drama of Negro life now playing at the Hollis Street Theatre. This luncheon is in connection with the Harvard Night performance of "Porgy" Tuesday evening, tickets for which are on sale at the Coop. Dr. and Mrs. William Worthy will be patrons at the luncheon...
...Knoedler & Co. paid when the collection of the late Charles H. Senff was sold last week, for Frans Hals's Portrait of a Dutch Lady. It is an interesting demonstration of the force of fashions among collectors that, in one evening's bidding at the same sale, 35 pictures by members of the Dutch School, Velazquez, and Corot (whose works bring the highest prices of all more recent artists) were sold for $346,150. The rest of the collection which onetime Sugar Merchant Senff had made in the 1890's brought the total price...
Yesterday the press reported the sale of "Alice in Wonderland" in the original manuscript for more than fifteen thousand pounds. A first edition brought five hundred pounds. Thus does it come about that the fame of whimsical Lewis Carroll dwarfs that of learned Professor Dodgson...
Last week the three newspapers of Lancaster, Pa.?Intelligencer,* News-Journal, New Era?were brought under a single ownership, the Lancaster Newspapers, Inc. This corporation, forthwith, put on sale at par a 6% bond issue to the amount of $600,006, pointed out that in 1927 the three newspapers earned $121,978 or 3.38 times the annual interest requirement of the new bond issue. A ratio of 3.38 between earnings and interest charges would once have been thought barely adequate to induce people to loan money to a manufacturing concern which had great brick & mortar assets. That such...