Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Interlude. On the New York Curb, Standard Oil of Indiana stock jumped to a new high of 103½, partly because of ill-founded rumors that Mr. Rockefeller Jr. and Col. Stewart were buying. Actually, the total turnover on the Curb was only one per cent of Standard Oil of Indiana stock; and the big warriors were not bothering with that tiny fraction. The stock dropped to 95 at the end of the week...
...Government, in the form of a man who is seldom news: Howard Sutherland, acting Alien Property Custodian. Said he: "I did as my judgment and conscience dictated." His deed was to support Mr. Rockefeller Jr. with proxies for 12,000 shares of Standard Oil of Indiana stock, which had been seized from Germans and Austrians during the World War and for which Mr. Sutherland is sole trustee...
Banks. During 1928 the Bank of United States (Manhattan) accumulated by merger the following: Central Mercantile Bank & Trust Co. (six branches), Cosmopolitan Bank (four units), City Financial Corp. Last week it bought stock control of the Colonial Bank (16 branches), bringing its total resources to $260,000,000, its chain to 36 banking units...
...trunk of today might mucH resemble the trunk of yesterday were it not for Innovation Trunk Co. and Innovator Seymour W. Bonsall. In 1897 Mr. Bonsall was a Manhattan stock broker, but interested in inventions as well as in the market. To him, in a dream, came the vision of a trunk which should be a portable closet rather than a travelling chest of drawers. Awakening, Mr. Bonsall remembered his dream, built the first wardrobe trunk. It looked much like the old style bulbous trunks, but in its interior were racks for hangers, thus embodying the essential principle...
Still interested in Innovation, however, Mr. Bonsall last spring visited the Innovation plant in Long Island City, last fall wrote to Mr. Trentacoste a letter which later was used in the sale of an Innovation stock issue. Said Mr. Bonsall, in part...