Word: shared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clinch the deal, which will cost his company almost $12,000,000 in stock, President Dow dangled an attractive proposition before Great Western's stockholders. For each preferred share they hold, they will get three-sixteenths of a share of Dow common; for each common share (whose price zoomed from $60 to $132 on news of the merger), one share of Dow common (about $134). The merger will make Great Western a Dow division with Jacob Hagens its manager...
...expected to say something rich and varied. Her poems are stopgaps for silence-what their author apparently feels would be an embarrassing silence. But since silence speaks louder than stopgaps, her poems give a net impression of saying nothing. Her lyrics, whether addressed to Nature or to Man, all share the same insufficiency. All are the work of a worried, earnest, poetical nondescript...
Henry Wallace got involved in few rumpuses. After five years his tempo is little changed. And gradually he has surrounded himself with men who share his own homely background. As Harry Hopkins' WPA is filled with social workers and reminds visitors of a settlement house, so Henry Wallace's Agriculture looks like the agricultural extension bureau of a midwestern university...
...carry his tack and help saddle his mounts) and an agent (to get engagements for him). To his valet he must pay $2 every time he races, an extra $1 every time he wins. To his agent he must pay a similar sum plus 10% of his 10% share of the winning purse. A jockey also pays for his saddles (he usually owns two or three of varying weights), whips, boots, breeches and rubber reducing suit-if he has to keep his weight down. Next to losing their bank rolls, jockeys dread gaining weight. Longden and Adams are both...
...influence in South America, Professor Haring said, "I have a strong feeling that German and Italian propaganda may turn out to be a boomerang. It has certainly had little or no concrete result on trade, since the figures for 1937 show that neither Germany nor Italy increased its proportional share of South American trade over the previous year...