Word: shared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young French writers and a large share of the general population, an election to the French Academy has no more relation to literature or life than the changing of the Guard at London's Whitehall. But Academicians themselves, of whom Academician Anatole France said that their literary ineptitude was exceeded only by their skill in intrigue, take it with deadly seriousness. Votes are traded, sponsors courted, wires pulled, ceaseless lobbies conducted in social and political circles, usually evoking more public amusement than concern...
...festival of the Harvard year, will be celebrated all today and far into the night. The age-old confetti battle in the Stadium and the second of the Harvard-Yale baseball series in the afternoon, are other highlights of the holiday program, in which graduating Seniors and their guests, share the spotlight with the reunion classes back in Cambridge for a week of renewal of the old ties...
...carryover. Annual U. S. consumption is about half this stupendous total. With light crops in England, Italy and North Africa, there is a slim chance the U. S. may export a sizable share of its surplus. Hope on this score plus rumors of black rust last week jumped prices on the Chicago wheat exchange 4½? a bu. day after the report was issued. But at 80?, wheat was still 30? under last spring and it looked as though only a major crop loss from rust and bad weather or vast New Deal lending could prevent the price from going...
...power plants in Manila and a railroad in Bolivia. But the War upset the applecart of international finance. In 1922 Speyer's London firm dissolved; in 1934 the Lazard Speyer-Ellissen banks in Berlin and Frankfurt dissolved. Speyer & Co. also had its troubles in the U. S. Its share in foreign loans dwindled; its patronage of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. was profitable but it attracted the unfavorable attention of the ICC. Last week James Speyer, now 76, decided to retire...
...Atlas is faring in Depression II showed last week in its semi-annual report.. Between Oct. 31, 1937, and April 30, 1938, Atlas' net assets dropped from $71,229,929 to $56,565,662, its common stock's asset value, from $13.36 to $9.44 per share...