Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pyramid rose, the shares in companies above them rose a little faster. On the super-top holding companies the effect of this multiplying leverage was prodigious. Central States stock began to expand and divide with the exuberance of yeast cells. Between 1924 and 1929 the common was split 60-for-1, the value of a single share increased from $10.50 to $5,600, and Mr. Williams' holdings, though reduced to 90%, amounted to 7,500,000 shares worth...
...Senior playing this year for the first time on the Varsity. A graduate of the Hill School, he rides in summer at the Myopia Hunt Club and here he does a little track on the side. Paul Fox, who played on the outdoor squad at Myopia, will probably split the game with him at "I". Skiddy von Stade, who was captain of his Freshman team two years ago and who has been on the Varsity all the time as an upperclassman, will hold down the No. 2 berth. He comes from St. Paul's and has played in the summers...
...nothing too definite on the schedule but the entrants will probably be trying to see what they can do and just keep in trim for the IC4A's a week hence. The members of the one and two mile relay teams will be there, though they will probably be split up, with Northrop running the mile and the others shorter distances...
...terrible time I have had in crossing the stream, and will be glad to know that I will be back on the same side from which I started, on or before the 4th of March next, when I will be ready to Swap Horses, Dispense Law, Make Jokes, Split Rails, and perform other matters in a small...
Then disaster struck. United Aircraft & Transport, one of the chief butts of the celebrated Roosevelt-Farley air mail crackdown, was forced to split up. Bitterly attacked in Senate hearings after he displayed paper profits of $51,000,000 from an original investment of $487,119, Founder Bill Boeing was forced out of his job as chairman of United, did not return to the Boeing factory. At present he is a partner in the potent New York Stock Exchange firm of E. A. Pierce & Co. To succeed him in Boeing, the stockholders, no one of whom now owns more than...