Word: share
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...product of the sound studio does not rise to great heights as far as originality or plot is concerned, but it does show Miss Mackaill that the title of the theme song. "The Things We Want Most Are Hard To Get" contains truth. Jack Oakie contributes his usual share of laughs at the expense of his manikin sister who longs for Park Avenue and has no objection to being picked up if the driver has a handsome car. The photography is unusually good, especially of the scenes in the Martin home...
...Philip K. he named a gum, "P. K's.," to share the fame of other Wrigley products, "Spearmint," "Doublemint," "Juicy Fruit." He still keeps in close touch with his business and when in Chicago eats lunch in the restaurant on the main floor of the white Wrigley Building which towers like a huge birthday cake beside an oily curve of the Chicago river. Snobbish Chicagoans who see him eating there are impressed with what they call the democracy of this great millionaire who was once a soap crutcher. In modern times soap is crutched or mixed by a machine...
...Last week there came to term $950,000 of Auburn notes. Holders had been able to buy Auburn stock at $83.91 per share...
...these added profits, the greatest share will probably go to the American Tobacco Co. Forced to segregate many of its properties in 1911 under the anti-trust law, American Tobacco still holds a dominant position in the trade, is said to handle one-third each of the cigaret and smoking tobacco business, and one-fourth of the plug business. Besides Lucky Strike, its brands include Sweet Caporal, Pall Mall, Lord Salisbury, Bull Durham, Tuxedo, Half and Half, Blue Boar, Cremo. But the American Tobacco Co., as all the world knows, has concentrated on Lucky Strikes, for which most...
...high of 135, sold last week down to 52. Before the worst break, Walter P. Chrysler observed that he could see no reason for low prices in automobile stocks, considering current automobile productions and sale. Last week Mr. Chrysler pointed out that nine months' earnings per share were $5.50 (compared to $7.03 for twelve months of 1928). Meanwhile automotive bears talked of competition, saturation, production figures weighted by disproportionate Ford and Chevrolet output, saw no good in horseless carriage securities. To which bulls replied that automobile stocks, fundamentally sound, had been driven down to attractive levels...