Word: take
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...market by convening every Thursday to discuss a raise in the rediscount rate, then reporting "no announcement.'' It formally announced that "when it [the board] finds that conditions . . . obstruct Fed eral Reserve Banks in . . . so managing credit facilities as to accommodate commerce and business, it is its duty . . . to take measures to correct them; which, in the immediate situation means to restrain the use of Federal Reserve credit facilities in aid of the growth of speculative credit." For months no more was heard. Brokers and speculators forgot. Last week when the Federal Reserve Board went into a conference, expected...
...behavior, has been booming along in the stock market at prices up to 292, which is 23 times earnings. The hopefulness of the speculators has not been based on expected revenue from telephone conversations with Buenos Aires. The point is that A. T. & T. is in a position to take the lead in any major telephone merger that may develop, and every time A. T. & T. and I. T. & T. do something together a great dream is revived...
...shall not take your time with a panegyric of advertising. It needs none. . . . Yet was our youth a glorious one, for we had vision and energy and vitality and we had set up a noble goal...
...picture until the Hearst group permitted them to do so. For exclusive news rights, Publisher Hearst paid a secret sum (approximately $200,000). Correspondent Von Wiegand had conceived the flight, arranged details of its stopovers at Tokyo and Los Angeles. He, Sir Hubert and Lady Drummond Hay were to take turns observing and reporting every day and night of the three weeks. She, "who is of a very reserved nature," insisted upon a cabin all to herself. She was the only woman aboard...
United Aircraft & Transport, by a stock trade, last week, acquired control of Standard Steel Propeller Co., West Homestead, Pa., maker of air propellers from aluminum alloy. United Aircraft was also organizing Northrup Aviation Corp. to take over the assets of John K. Northrup's Avian Corp., which is developing a new type of all-metal plane at Los Angeles. Recently United acquired Sikorsky Aviation Corp. (amphibians) and Stearman Aircraft Co. (commercial planes), is negotiating for Douglas Aircraft Co. (sport planes...