Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once owned some stock in a distillery company as I owned stock in many other business enterprises. The stock in this company was disposed of before I took office as Secretary of the Treasury; in fact, the distillery company absolutely ceased from doing any of its manufacturing business over three years before the prohibition amendment went into effect, and the entire business was subsequently wound up. At no time was I ever actively engaged in the distilling business. I have no interest in or connection with the distillation of liquor or any liquor business. Very truly yours...
...Secretary's trouble was not serious. It was only that heavy stock market speculation, and increased exporting of gold from the U. S., had stiffened the U. S. money market and kept it stiff. The Third Liberty Loan was to mature on Sept. 15 and a considerable portion of it had been left to be taken care of by the Treasury's September operations. Secretary Mellon had to decide what interest rate he must offer to ensure the success of these operations. He delayed decision, hoping for a "break" that would make the playing easier...
...Doorn this stock question is still supposed to be answered unctuously and favorably. But August von Mackensen, the hard, the merciless, the man who whipped Rumania down upon bloody knees, answered Host Hohenzollern thus: "There is not the slightest evidence that the people desire Your Majesty's return...
Cows. Dr. Millikan's abstractions were the exception, not the rule. Other reports dealt with some of these practical benefits derived from pure science. Francis Howard Car of England, president of the society, reported experiments indicating that the stock-carrying capacity of pastures and consequently their output of meat or milk may be increased to an unexpectedly high level. One-half an acre of grass intensively treated with nitrates for the purpose suffices as a substitute for the usual two or three acres required to graze a cow or its equivalent for a season...
...Pont. Somebody in recent stock trading days has been buying Paramount-Famous-Lasky stock. That somebody, it became clear last week, was affiliated with E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., which among its multifarious investments controls Du Pont-Pathe Film Mfg. Co. (Eastman Kodak rival). So the inference gained credence in Wall Street that du Fonts would soon be on Paramount-Famous-Lasky's directorate...