Word: sold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With U. S. exporters now able to obtain payments for goods sold to Brazil, the resumption of payment on Brazil's bonds, the possibility of the U. S. obtaining rubber (an essential war material) from the western hemisphere, the solidarity of the western hemisphere was brought a good step closer...
...Hearst got a great deal more. He got over $12,000,000 in common stock dividends. Publicly-owned Hearst Consolidated newspapers paid $2,000,000 a year to King Features, which was owned by Mr. Hearst's privately owned American Newspapers Inc. And in 1935 Hearst sold his Baltimore, Atlanta and San Antonio papers to Hearst Consolidated for $8,000,000 (of which $6,000,000 was for the familiar item of "circulation, press franchises, reference libraries, etc.") in spite of the fact that these same papers had lost $550,000 in 1934. But other Hearstpapers were losing even...
...rapid succession Executive Bitner and Hearst himself junked papers in Rochester and Omaha, leased the Washington Times to Cissie Patterson (who bought both Times and Herald outright this year), sold Hearst's half-interest in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, combined the staffs of morning and evening papers in Milwaukee, folded Universal Service into International News, tabbed the Boston American. This plugged a drainage of nearly $5,000,000 a year. Executives White and Hearst Jr. began liquidating the Hearst art treasures. Executive Connolly got rid of seven radio stations for $1,215,000. Executive Huberth told Hearst real-estate...
American Weekly, sold to non-Hearst papers for the first time last year, has a circulation of 6.700.000, makes more money for Hearst than anything else Hearst owns. Not only do the Hearstpapers guarantee 5.000.000 of its circulation, but it has held Hearst's Sunday circulation steady while daily circulation declined. Hearstpapers also contribute much of the income of King Features, which prospers, and of INS, which gets along...
...Hialeah Park, Widener Day had its troubles too. The ballyhooed duel between Samuel Riddle's War Admiral and Maxwell (no relation) Howard's Stagehand fizzled when the pampered Riddle colt developed a slight fever three days before the race-when every seat in the Park had been sold. But Florida turf fans did not lose interest either...