Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Only that amount of its $200,000,000 stock has been sold...
...public was given last week an opportunity to purchase stock in Stone & Webster, Inc., potent builders and operators of U. S. public utilities. To the public went an offering of 400,000 shares of Stone & Webster, Inc., newly organized as a Delaware corporation. To present large stockholders went 175.000 additional shares. Priced at $100, the new stock im mediately sold "when, as and if" above $107. The new financing will create a 100-million-dollar corporation. Control will remain with the founders, Charles Augustus Stone and Edwin Sibley Webster...
...almost white except for a black border along the neck. When he speaks of the company's activities, he invariably says, "Mr. Webster and I" or "Stone & Webster," never uses the first person pronoun alone. He likes yachting and tennis, but his chief avocation is breeding horses on his stock farms in Virginia and New Hampshire...
Holders of Erie Railroad first and second preferred stock were last week cheered by the decision of Erie directors to pay a $2 semi-annual dividend. It was the first time that Erie preferred had paid a dividend since 1907. The common has never paid a dividend, but common dividends may soon be declared if Erie's present earnings continue...
...made no money and showed no signs of ever making money. Owner Ford made it pay. He electrified 263 miles of it. He raised salaries that were accustomed to being reduced. He speeded up the freight service (passenger traffic has never been an important D. T. Item). He shared stock with employes and excused them, as far as possible, from working on Sundays. Generous, Mr. Ford was also astute. For the more efficient became the railroad, the more rapidly Ford coal moved north from Ironton and Ford autos moved south from Detroit. And, though the selling price of the road...