Word: stockes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last autumn his broker advised him to buy some common shares of Hiram Walker, Inc. To Mr. Dyer's delight, the stock went up to 93⅞. He held on. Then the shares slid down to 66. Not until then did Mr. Dyer learn, he says, that Hiram Walker is a Canadian whiskey stock. His shock and grief at losing his money were exceeded only by his vexation at learning he had become involved in a liquor business. He sold his stock at a loss and, last week, wrote a letter of protest to the New York Curb Association...
...wines and spirits for medicinal purposes. Beyond the 12-mile-limit on eastbound trips, this supply will be opened and sold to passengers. At Southampton and Cherbourg the chief steward will purchase an assortment of drinks for the westbound trip, plus a supply to replenish the medicinal liquor stock. At the 12-mile-limit the inbound Leviathan will jettison all unconsumed liquor except the medicinal supply under seal which will be held in readiness to refresh passengers on the next eastbound trip. The westbound trip, with a full European stock, will be wetter than the eastbound trip with its limited...
...talking picture to date - Mary Pickford telling a lawyer what she thinks of her father after he has shot and fatally wounded her lover. In 1897, Mrs. John Charles Smith, a widow, ran a candy counter in a fish store in Toronto. Getting a job, later, with a stock company, she took her five-year-old daughter, Gladys, to the theatre because, she couldn't leave her at home. When Gladys was five she had a part in which she spoke one line: "Don't speak to her, girls. Her father killed a man." She had played many...
...Taylor, Newark's Bamberger, Cleveland's Higbee, Philadelphia's Wanamaker, Washington's Woodward & Lathrop, Pittsburgh's, Home, Detroit's Crowley Milner, San Francisco's Emporium, Boston's White. Paris Patterns has also enlisted Wall Street, issued 30,000 shares of common stock...
...business & finance in general, it is gold that melts in the furnace and earnings that spark from the spout. To Hoboken this week went the most potent of steelmen for the annual stockholders' meeting of the most gilded of steel companies. Had all U. S. Steel Corp. stock owners attended, those present would have totaled 100,000. Most, however, stayed at home; all knew that the main business of the meeting was to increase authorized common stock from $753,321,000 to $1,250,000,000 and reduce the preferred from $550,000,000 to $400,000,000. This...