Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia will have free transit over this line to its juncture with the Swedish rail-road at Tornio, hard by the Swedish iron mines and fort at Boden. To narrow the "waist" of Finland thus traversed (something else Russia's fighting columns failed to do), Russia takes a slice off Finland north and south of Kuolajärvi, instead of ceding a big slice of Russia further down the line as she was willing to do last autumn. In these concessions, Russia thus was insuring herself against future military resistance from the Finns of the kind that proved...
Last week pretty Mrs. Jay ("Dolly") O'Brien, one of the holders of the women's hoard that is a 20% slice of outstanding U. S. corporation stocks, was in Palm Beach dancing with her socialite husband at the swanky Patio, walking with her bulge-clipped English poodle on her South Ocean Boulevard estate. Her amiable, globe-trotting son, Julius ("Junky") Fleischmann, whose father, Julius Fleischmann Sr., died (heart attack) on the polo field, was ailing in his moated castle in Cincinnati. And her onetime brother-in-law, husky Major (in the A. E. F.) Max C. Fleischmann...
...dollar measure, no arm of the Federal Government has so loud a say in so big a slice of U. S. business as the New Deal's Securities and Exchange Commission. Six different Acts of Congress give it power. Under the first (Securities Act of 1933) it has in six years passed on the registration statements of over 2,500 corporations issuing $15,591,262,000 of new securities. Under the second (Securities Exchange Act of 1934) it daily watches fluctuations in about $150,000,000,000 worth of stocks and bonds listed on 20 U. S. exchanges...
Last week, SEC gave its answer: denied the application. Byllesby & Co. got 60 days to "make such adjustments as they deem necessary," i.e., get out of Standard Gas and give up its 25% slice of Standard investment issues or register as a holding company and perhaps lay its head on the block for the SEC's death sentence. Said Byllesby Vice President Joseph H. Briggs: "It appears the only course open is liquidation of the voting trust and sale of the stock." From SEC came ominous rumbles that other investment houses may also feel the knout...