Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made them president and vice president respectively of Airvia and financed their Rome flight for the use of their names. They were each to get $300 a month, 1,000 shares of Airvia before the flight, 4,000 more shares after the flight. To protect the values of their stock they stipulated that Promoter Montgomery sell no Airvia stock publicly for two years. While they were in Europe, Promoter Montgomery began to reave out stock at $8 to $12 a share. For that reason, Messrs. Williams and Yancey say, they resigned from Airvia...
...only scandal in which Austin Howard Montgomery and his Hadley & Co. were currently involved. They got Clarence Chamberlin, another trans-Atlantic flyer, to be president of Crescent Aircraft Corp., organized last year to manufacture commercial airplanes. They paid $4 for Crescent stock, tried to sell it for $12 to $16 a share with the intimation that Crescent planes had been ordered for passenger service between New York and Newfoundland, Bermuda and London. Clarence Chamberlin, a gull for no long time,* was vexed. He asked and received a temporary injunction against Hadley & Co. selling Crescent stock. Chamberlin also had newspapers print...
Chicago Union. The Chicago Federation of Musicians announced a series of 30 public concerts through September, beginning Labor Day in Grant Park, by a 50-man orchestra. On the list to be invited to conduct: Frederick Stock, John Philip Sousa...
...touch of Midas turned things to gold. In the legends of finance the name of J. P. Morgan is supposed to have the same effect. All sorts of stocks are sometimes labelled Morgan stocks, yet no one save the uncommunicative partners at 23 Wall St. really knows exactly what companies have Morgan connections, or how much stock interest, if any, J. P. Morgan Co. holds in them. Speculators eager to know how much the name of Morgan is like the touch of Midas, have spent much time calculating what profit Morgan stocks have shown...
...following list gives 20 stocks labelled with various degrees of certainty as Morgan Stocks. It shows a wide diversity of Morgan interests, a wide diversity of Morgan profit. The stock prices given are respectively the closing prices on Jan. 2, 1929 and the closing prices on Aug. 17, no allowance being made for rights issued in the intervening period...