Word: swaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swap...
...Pelham Manor, N. Y., Carl Percy advertised in the magazine Stamps that he would swap a nine-room colonial house for a satisfactory stamp collection. The house originally cost about $28,000, has a $16,000 mortgage...
...Victory Loan of 1919 was floated by his Treasury successor, Carter Glass. ?In Crowded Years, his autobiography, Mr. McAdoo suggests that Britain and France swap the U. S. their colonies in the West Indies, Central and South America in lieu of cash payments on their War Debts...
Inquisitor Seabury attempted to show how, in 1925, the Messrs. Hastings & Walker got into the Equitable Coach Co. deal, a grandiose but fruitless scheme to get a city franchise, start a bus line, swap stock and concessions with other municipal services and ultimately control the city's entire privately-owned transit system. "A little syndicate" was formed with $282,000 worth of contributions from three members: Frank R. Fageol of Kent, Ohio, builder of motor coaches; his vice president Charles B. Rose (now president of America-La France & Foamite Corp.); President William O'Neil of General Tire & Rubber...
...there was the additional matter of the Premier's private railway car. Mr. Bennett had been using a wooden private car known as Old York, once used by Canada's Governor Generals. Ever thoughtful Sir Henry built a brand new private car of his own, offered to swap it for Old York. The swap was made. Explained Sir Henry...