Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adopt a plan of financing which called for the issuance of 250,000 shares of prior preference stock. Opposition to the plan was headed by the New York Stock Exchange firm of Tucker, Bartholomew & Co. which represented existing preferred stockholders, among who are included a few members of the Swift family, also famed packers...
Thomas E. Wilson, in a special letter to the stockholders, assailed the Swift interests as competitors and opponents of his financial plans. He stated that a majority of the common stockholders, who were most affected by his scheme of financing, were in favor of it. He could not, however, secure the needed two-thirds vote, and his plan consequently fell through. Partly to conserve working capital and partly perhaps as a tit-for-tat with the rebellious preferred stockholders, the 'dividend on the latter issue was passed...
...export trade. And against economic disadvantages governmental policies are of singularly little avail. But while the prosperity and dominance of an earlier era may never return to the American merchant fleet, the record of the Leviathan seems to point out one possible field for exploitation: the development of a swift "liner" service across the Atlantic...
...swift, breathless scherzo...
...listeners heard a rousing, but polished, reading of the First Movement, with its bold tossing about of thundrous rhythms, alternating with gentle, simple melodies, rising again and again in a seemingly endless succession of climaxes. Then came the swift, breathless scherzo (musical jest) ; then the long-drawn-out, meditative Slow Movement; finally, after fragments of what had gone before, the rich baritone voice of Mr. Royal Dadmun, chanted: "O friends, no more such sound of discord. Let us sing a strain more cheerful, now flowing, a strai-ai-ai-ai-ai-ain of gladness...