Word: smalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London show is remarkable for its great number of light planes. The transport and military planes there seem entered only as samples of what is being accomplished in aviation. The small planes are dressed up to stimulate sales. Many are being bought at sight. The Exhibition is a sales opportunity which U. S. manufacturers seem to have foregone. The only U. S. plane on show was a trimotored Ford...
Though their crops were parching, English farmers kept their level heads, but small-town Cubans panicked badly. Frantic was the situation provoked at Santiago de Cuba when the Chief of the Water Works, without warning, cut off all water from public buildings, hotels, finally from homes. Next day this thrice rash official telegraphed to Havana...
Within a few minutes after the booklet was out, last week, shares of the British Royal Mail slumped from 55 to 45-representing an aggregate loss of something like $15,000,000 to thousands of small investors. Things looked all the blacker because for several months there has been a slow decline in BRM securities...
...between the (Keys-Hoyt) Curtiss-Wright Corp. and the Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical Co. was in the misleading similarity of the names. Organizers of Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical Co. had located (or invented) an airplane mechanic named Curtiss Wright, had christened their company after him. Assets, other than the name, were small. Stock-sale profits, however, should have been considerable. According to the Attorney-General's office, stock was optioned to Broker Cyrus Brin for 66^ a share, reoptioned to Broker H. D. Strahman at $1.25 a share, sold to the public at the $25,130 figure. The company was ordered...
...have to be supervised as long as they do not describe themselves as "banks," do not accept deposits that at any time run under $500,? do not transmit money or negotiate notes. The $500 minimum deposit regulation (passed in 1914) is supposed to keep widows, orphans and other "small" depositors out of such banking houses. Present-day prosperity permits many to save $500 without having good banking judgment. Because Clarke Bros, conducted a private banking business, they have been erroneously described as a private bank. A private bank is really an entirely different kind of institution. It is fully...