Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...operative Society Store--Until December 29 the store will be open at the usual hours, but from December 29 to January 2 inclusive it will be closed for stock-taking...
...Till the stock of the Puritans...
...Medecin Malgre Lui" is one or Moliere's most characteristic satires of his cherished laughing-stock, the doctors. Squarelle is a drunken woodcutter, who ill-treats his wife, Martine. She seizes an opportunity for revenge, when Valere and Lucas, servants of Geronte, come in search of a doctor for their master's daughter, Lucinda, who, to avoid an unwelcome marriage, feigns dumbness. Martine tells the servants that her husband is a learned physician, but afflicted with an eccentric disinclination to practice his profession unless coerced by a sound thrashing. They seek out the unsuspecting woodcutter, and finding...
...speaker then took up the subject of over-capitalization. He showed that the fact of over-capitalization was very easily exaggerated and that much of the cry against watered stock is really against capital represented by the losses which the companies have incurred in experiments and improvements. From there the speaker went on to show that even though some over-capitalization did exist, municipal ownership was not the remedy. He showed that in Massachusetts over-capitalization was prevented by statute and he argued that the same thing could be done in New York...
...present system of street railways is grossly overcapitalized. The stock quotations and selling ability of the shares of these companies indicate enormous profits to the roads and dividends from 5 to 10 per cent. The roads themselves in endeavoring to conceal the tremendous profits have deliberately falsified their accounts. By this means they have increased the apparent charges and made the dividends seem normal...