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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great value to Britain. Nevertheless, there were still plenty of members of Parliament who rose to decry the Palestine plan. Elder Statesman David Lloyd George, head of the War Cabinet that made the Jewish Homeland pledge, called the Government's policy an attempt "to crawl out of their share of a definite bargain." Labor and many normal Government supporters seconded Winston Churchill's attack on this "act of repudiation." Alarmed, the Government sent a "three-line whip" to Conservatives, ordering them to support the Palestine plan as a confidence measure, and managed to squeeze...
...bought a Pitney-Bowes machine to speed up its mailing. Pitney-Bowes profits meanwhile have risen to $614,791 in 1937, $586,416 last year. Its stock, traded on the Curb, was only at $7.25 last week, but Founder Bowes has enough so that the annual 50?-per-share dividend enables him to indulge another expensive hobby besides yachting-a stud farm in Virginia...
...goes to Manhattan, tearing up the highway at breakneck speed with his mother sitting unruffled beside him. But never does he go by airplane. Few years ago only stockholders in the company were Martin and Motorman Louis Chevrolet. But in 1934, with funds needed for expansion, 325,000 shares of Glenn L. Martin Co. were put on the market at $11.50 a share (current price: $34.625). Today, Martin remains well in control with some 37% of the stock in his hands, but the bankers who are now interested in his company have taken him out of the air. Because Martin...
...Martin Company turned a net profit of $1,144,858. Last year it made $2,349,355 (equal to $2.15 a share) and in the first quarter of this year it made $682,496. Yet Martin has never paid a cash dividend, has ploughed back its earnings into plant expansion and reserve...
Lowell, Adams, and Kirkland dominated the play in the inter-House baseball League, and it is these same Bellboys, Gold Coasters, and Deacons who carry off the lion's share of honors on the all-League team...