Word: shared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Startling are some of the many statements quoted from potent Britons, past and present, to show that in unguarded moments even staunchest Imperialists share a measure of Dr. Sunderland's views. For example, as long ago as 1911, Lord Morley, then Secretary of State for India, described the native officials in the Indian Civil Service as men "as good in every way as the best of the men in Whitehall" (i.e. equals of the officials in Britain's own Civil Service...
According to the flyers, Promoter Montgomery, reputedly head of Hadley & Co., made them president and vice president respectively of Airvia and financed their Rome flight for the use of their names. They were each to get $300 a month, 1,000 shares of Airvia before the flight, 4,000 more shares after the flight. To protect the values of their stock they stipulated that Promoter Montgomery sell no Airvia stock publicly for two years. While they were in Europe, Promoter Montgomery began to reave out stock at $8 to $12 a share. For that reason, Messrs. Williams and Yancey...
...which Austin Howard Montgomery and his Hadley & Co. were currently involved. They got Clarence Chamberlin, another trans-Atlantic flyer, to be president of Crescent Aircraft Corp., organized last year to manufacture commercial airplanes. They paid $4 for Crescent stock, tried to sell it for $12 to $16 a share with the intimation that Crescent planes had been ordered for passenger service between New York and Newfoundland, Bermuda and London. Clarence Chamberlin, a gull for no long time,* was vexed. He asked and received a temporary injunction against Hadley & Co. selling Crescent stock. Chamberlin also had newspapers print his public warning...
...made annual purchases of $500 a year from Squibb he is allowed to buy ten shares (at $50 each) of the 6% cumulative Distributors Preferred stock of a new company, Squibb Plan, Inc. With each $50 he puts in, Squibb Plan buys a share of the parent company's common, now paying $1 a share in dividends†. In addition Squibb Plan receives a sum from the parent company equal to 10% of the amount of the retailer's purchase of Squibb products and an additional 10% on the increase of his purchases over the previous year...
...extra inducement to go into the plan, Squibb is offering to every retailer whose purchases average more than $100 a month for the 15 months ending Dec. 31, 1930, the opportunity to buy directly, at $50 a share, as many shares of Squibb common as he holds of Squibb Plan...