Word: surplus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might interest you to know that this Company, having a capital of three hundred and fifteen million dollars and a surplus of approximately one-quarter of a billion, has no bond issue, preferred stock or bank loans ahead of the common. The stock of this Company is, by the way, considered in the West our leading prime investment...
Andrew Mellon's bookkeeping has been widely and highly praised for seven and three-quarters years. It has also had its detractors. The Mellon estimates of Treasury surplus have been wrong often and far enough to cause some people to suggest that the Secretary of the Treasury's calculations are not purely arithmetic, that they are sometimes tinctured with policy if not politics. In his own party, Mr. Mellon has been frequently flayed by Michigan's Senator Couzens. Democrats in the House have kept up an intermittent fire. Last week, Democrat John Nance Garner of Texas, minority...
...consumption of potatoes has decreased 25% in the last two years. There was a crop surplus of 80,000,000 bushels in 1927. There will probably be a bigger surplus this year. These figures caused Gov. H. Clarence Baldridge of Idaho to flay "that foolish women's fad for slim figures'' before a convention of potato-growers in Chicago last week. Gov. Baldridge, as everyone knows, has both potato-growers and women among his constituents...
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...this country about 320,000 oil wells with a potential daily production of about 3,000,000 barrels of oil. During 1926 the average daily domestic demand for crude oil was slightly over 2,000,000 barrels. Total 1926 production of about 770,000,000 barrels left a surplus of about 25,000,000 barrels. Inasmuch as the oil industry had been overproducing every year since 1918, there were on hand large surplus stocks of oil. During 1927, production increased to about 900,000,000 barrels. Furthermore, new wells are being constantly discovered. Only last week a new Kansas well...