Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first quarter of 1938 set a three-year low of $355,819,000. In Wall Street it was considered quite a feat that a banking syndicate headed by Morgan Stanley & Co. managed to float successfully a $60,000,000 refunding for Consolidated Edison Co. of New York. Thus underscored still again was the almost complete stagnation of U. S. money markets which has existed for the last six months. Financiers are agreed that needed expansion of industry cannot occur until this stagnation is ended. But underwriters generally are too scared to attempt the job. Last week Jesse Jones announced that...
...armed truce, utility magnates let it be known that there was some $3,000,000,000 in needed utility expansion which had been held up because of the industry's fear of what the Government next might do to it or Wall Street. Whether this expansion is still needed now that power sales have been dwindling for six months is moot, but last week Jesse Jones declared that RFC would be glad to give utilities money for expansion. Said he: "We have heard a lot of talk about the expanding they could do if they got the right kind...
Depression hit Benson & Rixon for only a moment; in 1933 the annual gross was again $2,000,000 and President Benson's enthusiasm was still aggressive and undampened. Now he is booming a new experiment, the three-pants suit. This consists of the standard two-pants article plus an odd pair of different pattern. Benson & Rixon buys the odd pants separately, sells them at cost (a $26 two-pants suit sells for only $29.50 as a three-pants suit). By last week the chain had sold 2,900 three-pants suits in three weeks. Said beaming 55-year...
...feet far off the ground until he had thorough knowledge of air and its currents. The invention of engines provided aviation with a shortcut, proved Leonardo partly wrong. But at the same time man did study the air, developed four types of motorless flying: gliding (coasting downward on still air); slope soaring (on rising air currents along the shoulder of a hill); cold front soaring (on the brow of a thunderhead); and thermal soaring (on rising currents of air in the open). So specialized are these techniques that a skillful soarer looks upon power flyers with the same superiority that...
...What, still alive at twenty two, A clean upstanding chap like you. Sure, if your throat is hard to slit, Slit your girl's and swing...