Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bearing 2% interest. Instead the Treasury made the rate 2¼%. Result: the subscription books were able to close on the evening of the day they opened, and the subscriptions totaled $2,714,000,000, nearly three times the amount of the offering. Overjoyed, the President himself announced the success of the issue instead of leaving that routine to the Treasury...
Tibbett's success is reminiscent of the boom years, which for concerts ended not with the stock crash but with radio and sound movies which came in at a time when the market was already imperilled by too many second-rate artists. In the boom years Galli-Curci and John McCormack were the big money-making concert singers. They would get 100 engagements a season and they needed no advertising. Phonograph records built up their names, besides earning them royalties which year after year ran over $100,000. Deflation has weeded out second-raters and for the top-notchers...
Transplantation of tissue is no new thing. But, before Dr. Stone's work, skin was the only graft which took with regular success. Gland and other tissue grafts quickly died, because they were a foreign substance in the patient's system. The patient then needed another operation or was obliged to go on a life-long regime of drugs...
Photographs for the book, which have been taken at Notman's studio since the term began, are almost completed. It is encouraging to note that last year's Red Book was a financial success though not a very great one, since only a slight sum was left over at the end of the year. For the past few years, with the exception of the class of 1936, the Red Book has steadily run a deficit. This year it is hoped to convert last year's slight margin into a substantial sum. One of the most important problems to be decided...
...resigned as chairman of Steel's Finance Committee (remaining, however, as Steel's board chairman and chief executive). New Finance Committee Chairman is William J. Filbert, a man who has spent his life mysteriously toiling over figures, taking no one into his confidence, but achieving legendary success. Of the comptroller of Steel since 1902, director since 1920, finance committeeman since 1922, the late Judge Gary once said: "I have known Filbert-I mean Mr. Filbert-for 35 years as intimately as anybody could know such a man, and I have never been able to find out what that...