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...French costs for labor remain at levels 50% or more below similar costs in the U. S., such importations [pipes] will remain a commercial factor. It is one of the anomalies of the situation that some of the largest public utilities, privately or municipally owned, dependent on the sale of their water, gas and power to residents of the U. S., should, for a small percentage of ultimate savings, purchase foreign pipe...
...disgruntled go-between was Emmet Queen, who claims that it was he, not Beman Gates Dawes (brother of the Vice President) who brought about Mr. Dillon's recent sale of the Pure Oil Co. to the Ohio Cities Gas Co. for $23,500,000. Mr. Queen asserts that Mr. Dawes was Mr. Dillon's "dummy" in the deal, and wants $1,100,000 go-between commission for himself...
...failure of your corporation to progress to the point of giving them a return upon their investment and for other reasons. This feeling of unfriendliness upon the part of stockholders has exerted a hampering influence in obtaining better distributors and dealers for our products. It has slowed up the sale of our cars, it has furnished the basis for the disparaging statements of outsiders...
...last Vatican bond offering, in 1886, when Paris was the money-lending centre of the world. Last week it was the Protestant house of Halsey, Stuart† & Co., of Chicago and New York, who announced a forthcoming issue of $1,500,000 of 5% Vatican bonds whose proceeds of sale will build new buildings for the College of the Propaganda of the Faith on a site of three acres on the Giancialo in Rome. His Holiness Pope Pius XI has shown his particular interest in this novel piece of financing by summoning Cardinal Mundelein and the Right...
...value of the property pledged to secure the mortgage. In this case the bonds will be issued under the name of the Catholic Bishop of Chicago and they will be guaranteed by $80,000,000 worth of Church property in Chicago. The Vatican Treasury will receive the proceeds of sale of the issue, and His Eminence Cardinal Mundelein will receive from the Vatican the sums necessary to pay annual interest and meet the sinking fund which will retire the bonds within 20 years. It is thought that the College buildings will be completed in time for Pope Pius...