Word: shared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated the House's bill of appropriations for the Federal share of the District of Columbia's municipal government costs; amended it to increase the Federal share to 40%, or 15% more than the House had voted; passed it; sent it to conference...
Since last autumn, the stock-market price of John D. Ryan's* Montana Power Co. shares have gone up and down queerly. Since January 1 their quotations have ranged between $102.25 and $169.50. Last week, trading in the stock became steady at $165.50 a share; and pat upon that situation, Mr. Ryan who theretofore had always smiled mockingly at offers to buy the company, let it be known that he and other directors had agreed to sell out to the American Power & Light Co., for the equivalent of $166 a share. That is, they were trading each of their...
Their prudence is undebatable. Last week they raised the dividend rate on Atchison common shares to $10 per share and no one doubted that this rate would be maintained for many a year...
...part of Mr. Mitchell's American Power & Light Co., it is worth several millions more. American Power & Light, one of the many potent public utilities which the omnipotent Electric Bond & Share Co. (Sidney Z. Mitchell is its chairman also) "supervises," recently acquired control of the Washington Water Power Co., which operates in Washington and Idaho, and for a longer time has owned the Pacific Power & Light Co., which operates in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. By adding to those companies Montana Power, American Power & Light has a well-knotted system tying the northwest communities snugly together...
Richard Henry Tawney, famed Professor of Economics at the University of London, replied to Bishop McConnell by voicing an even more damaging criticism of contemporary Christianity: "I cannot share the complacency of those who talk about all the good things we have to offer backward peoples, when we cannot point out a single country in Europe where there is a real Christian civilization operating throughout its society. . . . We are trying the impossible in offering to save the individual, yet leaving the social structure pagan. ... It is not possible for men and women to accept one standard of social ethics...