Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...object of last week's debenture issue was to enable Kreuger & Toll to gather in all the outstanding ($17,917,800) preferred stock of the Swedish-American Investment Co. Another was to take over...
Trans-Atlantic Talk. When William Crapo Durant, stock market operator, was in Europe this summer he spent more than $25,000 on trans-Atlantic telephone calls to the U. S. But never for one call did he, nor anyone else, ever spend as much as F. B. Odium did last week. For 95 minutes of speech he paid $1,425. He is director of several U. S. electrical companies, notably, of Electric Bond & Share...
Philadelphia Seat. A seat on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, where relatively little business is negotiated, sold last week for a record price...
Call money for transactions on the New York Stock Exchange reached 9% one day last week. That enticed vast new sums for loaning and retarded trading. Less trading caused less demand for the horde of money. So the call rate dropped the next day to 8%, to 7 1/2%. That in turn gave traders a chance to make money on stock deals. They scrambled. When the day was over they had swapped more than 4,700,000 shares. Motors and oils were popular. Someone bought $6,000,000 of General Motors stock in a single deal. There were other large...
...time and by making no objections the I. C. C. seemed to approve his southwestern unification plans. In 1925 they approved his being a director of both the K. C. Southern and Katy. He owned large blocks of stock in both roads (as did his bankers Kuhn, Loeb & Co.). He acted as chairman of both roads...