Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Royal Baking Powder, by increasing its outstanding stock from 100,000 shares ($100 par) to 800,000 shares (no par) is giving its shareholders the equivalent of a 700% stock dividend. Besides, it is selling them $5,000,000 stock in its two main subsidiaries?E. W. Gillett Ltd., Canadian maker and distributor of baking powder and allied products, and American Maize Products Co., maker and distributor of corn starch and corn byproducts...
Seat. The new record price for a New York Stock Exchange seat is $465,000, made last week...
Then last spring Mr. Loree in a vicious, nerve-wracking stock-voting contest for control of the Lehigh Valley lost to Lehigh's President Edward Eugene Loomis. The fifth system thus could no longer be. Leonor Fresnel Loree, hard-bitten railroader that he is, was thwarted, vanquished.* At once he sold his Lehigh Valley and Wabash stocks to the Pennsyl-vania...
...worth of common and preferred stock outstanding. A. Iselin & Co. and Roosevelt & Son, investment bankers, owned two-thirds of the stock. The par of both kinds (preferred and common) is $100. On the stock markets early last week the shares were considered worth only $80 each. The Van Sweringens offered the Iselin-Roosevelt group the full $100, and gained the purchase. B. R. & P. shares are not worth $100. But so great is general confidence in Van Sweringen financing that stock buyers at once offered $98 a share for what minority stock might reach the market...
Traditions. What are they? What do they mean? Are they the effete practices that thin-blooded men of degenerate stock use to bolster their sense of defeated pride? Are they outworn customs fit only for academic discussions? Are they part of the life-blood of the Nation? What are they, and are they worth following...