Word: scrip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another case of conflicting interests over another and bigger foreign defaulter was before SEC last week. After more than two years of futile effort to get Germany to amplify registration statements covering $69,000,000 worth of 3% scrip to be issued to present holders of German bonds in settlement of past-due interest, SEC finally gave up. It allowed the registration to become effective but not without a bold attempt to supply on its own hook some of the missing information it deemed vital to investors, particularly a hint as to the Reich's "secret debt...
...finest outdoor singers in America." Embarking last week on their new venture, Mr. Whitelock declared: "We're starting on faith alone. No one with a lot of money is backing us. What does it say in the Bible-Carry neither purse, nor scrip? Churches are necessary, but Christianity is too big to be confined to churches alone." The church which confined Baptist Whitelock to his itinerant preaching in the summer was Horace Memorial in Chelsea, Mass. Before resigning as its pastor he mounted its pulpit one Sunday last month, began preaching a stock sermon which he continually revises...
...fare from New York to Chicago was $47.95, or $40.76 in scrip.* New fare is $39.95, or $33.96 in scrip. Standard train plus Pullman fare from New York to Chicago is $33.25. On the Twentieth Century Limited it is $42.45. The Century takes 16½ hours; TWA, 4¼hours...
...transcontinental rates fall from $160 to $139.95 for single tickets, from $136 to $118.95 in scrip. Time is 15½ hours eastbound, 16½westbound. Minimum coast-to-coast rail fare, including a lower berth, is $113.25 for a 3½-day trip...
...buying scrip, good at any time on any U. S. airline, in $500 batches, travelers get a 15% reduction...