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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treasury's gigantic $4 billion bond issue consisting of 1½% notes of 1946 and 2% bonds of 1952 had just been subscribed for a total of $4,100,000,000-a squeak-through compared to the 50% (and greater) over-subscriptions of recent years. But to save even this much face the Treasury had to beg banks to increase their purchases, for the unsolicited subscriptions fell considerably short of the necessary total (about $1,000,000,000 short, according to many bankers' beliefs...
...that we have successfully raised $4 billion with the cooperation of the investors of the nation, I sincerely hope we will be able to continue to finance this war in the seven-to-ten-year range at 2%. If we are able to accomplish this . . . we will save not only this but future generations many millions of dollars on the public debt...
...staccato poundings of President Sam Murphy, Okin told how he had bought 9,000 shares of Ebasco stock, was about to lose everything because "the management had tried to sell the company down the river by playing into the hands of the SEC." Up went shouts: "Fight the SEC!" "Save our company!" A peacemaker tried to smooth things over, got so wrought up himself that he threatened to throw Okin out of the room. An aged shareholder yelped that he had paid $4,000 for stock now worth only $12.50. He shook his fist right under President Murphy...
...calculation; he probably struck Banks's rear on the only day he could have done so. To reach the ridges south of Winchester before the Union forces could man them, he drove his men beyond exhaustion. "I am obliged to sweat them tonight," he said, "that I may save their blood tomorrow...
...Prensa's front page is solid (save for a small box for important headlines) with classified ads. So, usually, are the following six pages-one reason the paper nets a million dollars or more annually. Lately La Prensa has made some concessions to modernity: it now carries two comic strips, occasional news pictures...