Word: sure
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Golden Harvest?" Alarmist reports from the Empire's trade frontiers undoubtedly tended to weaken the employers front in Lancashire. The potent Rothermere press envisioned Germany and Japan as "likely to acquire, perhaps permanently" a huge volume of business sure to be lost by Britain in the event of a long strike. "The textile mills of Northern France are working at top speed." warned Viscount Rothermere's Daily Mail, "and they will reap a golden harvest of orders that ordinarily would go to Lancashire. . . Even Poland is reckoning on big profits...
...first place, it will list the securities of real estate corporations. Thus, for instance, Benjamin Winter, Inc., potent Park Avenue realty house, might well issue 100,000 common shares, 100,000 preferred and $1,000,000 in bonds. To be sure, there is nothing to prevent Benjamin Winter, Inc., from doing such financing without any exchange. But with 250 potent real estate houses all offering stocks, bonds and other securities in a recognized exchange devoted exclusively to realtors, the market for Winter securities would be better than if the financing was undertaken as an isolated effort. Furthermore, the Exchange will...
...arrived in Paris a Japanese youth. He intended to stay one month. Not until last week did he get ready to go home. Meantime he had become a famed, much-pointed-out Parisian. "There goes Tsugoharu Foujita, the artist." His departure was such news in Paris that he felt sure his arrival in Japan would be a national event. Cockily chatting to reporters, last week, he compared the Tokyo he left with the Tokyo he would...
...tough with her. Instead of saying yes I said what I pleased and won the greatest little girl that ever lived." Next day Cinemactress Bow snapped: "When I need a boss, I'll put an advertisement in the paper." She said she was not at all sure about the engagement...
Answered Alex Gumberg of the Chase National Bank: "I am sure that this trip will reveal to all participants business possibilities that they never before anticipated...