Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sent Richard to military school and then to Trinity College at Hartford, Conn. On vacations he played small roles in stock with his mother. Some film people, on location near the Connecticut town where he was working as a clerk, took him to California when they left. His part in D. W. Griffith's Broken Blos soms made him famous...
...stockholder in the usual industrial concern generally has little difficulty in assuring himself of the tangible properties back of his engraved certificates. A Pennsylvania Railroad stockholder can visit almost any eastern railroad station and watch his stock come clanging in. A Radio Corporation stockholder can hear his stock coming out of any cigar-store loudspeaker. Yet the type of corporation which is the outstanding feature of today's investment world has physical assets consisting chiefly of office equipment. This corporation is the Investment Trust?a company formed to trade in the stocks of other companies, a company whose stock...
...smaller, more compact example of the species. This was the Tri-Continental Corp. sponsored by the house of J. & W. Seligman, famed international bankers. It is capitalized at $50,000,000, has no specific field of interest. It has offered 1,000,000 shares of no par common stock at $27; a $25,000,000 issue of 6%, cumulative preferred stock with warrants...
...Magazine of Wall Street which he founded in 1907 as the Ticker Magazine. This apparently was not the case. Mr. Wyckoff turned the management of the magazine over to Mrs. Wyckoff when he discovered that she was making it show a profit. In the early years she accepted stock instead of salary. In 1926 the Wyckoffs signed an agreement which severed their business relations, giving Mrs. Wyckoff complete control of the Magazine of Wall Street. Mr. Wyckoff received $500,000 in 7% bonds...
Speed. Motor boats grow yearly more speedy. Most of the runabouts and outboard models will now do around 30 m. p. h. Called the "World's Fastest Stock Runabout" is the Baby Gar "50," built by famed Speeder Gar Wood. The "50'' will do 50 m. p. h.; the "55" (the same boat with a more powerful engine) will make 55. Swift, too, are Chris-Craft runabouts, the Chris-Craft Sport Hydroplane also reaching the 55 m. p. h. mark...