Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Round 14. Mr. Rockefeller Sr., aroused, in Ormond Beach, Fla., issued his first formal public statement in ten years. In the diplomatic third person, he pronounced false any reports that he was not heart and soul with his son. "It has been an unpleasant duty for him [the son], but one which in all good conscience he could not shirk," said Father Rockefeller...
Insurance. The Firemen's Insurance Co. of Newark, one of the world's largest fire and casualty insurance companies, last week consolidated with Commercial Casualty Insurance Co. of Newark, on a basis of ten shares of Firemen's for nine shares of Commercial Casualty. Capital of the merged companies will total...
...opportunity to discuss the much-debated ratio between the earnings of a stock and its market quotations. In bygone days, when bulls were not so fat and bears were not so lean, conservatives estimated that a stock which earned $10 a share should be selling at $100, or ten times its earnings-per-share. In recent years this ratio has been considered extremely backward. Thus, in March, 1928, John Jacob Raskob announced that General Motors should rise to 15 times its earnings-per-share, and the "15X" formula has become generally accepted with regard to industrials. Meanwhile, however, during...
...Department of Commerce last week published many a statistic indicative of growth in U. S. financial stability and purchasing power. The Department found that U. S. households have purchased 1,250,000 electric refrigerators, 5,500,000 washing machines. 13,000,000 radio sets in the last ten years. There were 24,700,000 pupils in U. S. public schools, 767,000 in U. S. colleges. More than $320,000,000,000 was deposited in U. S. banks. Since 1880 U. S. population has doubled. U. S. wage earners have trebled, U. S. wealth has increased sevenfold. At least...
...ten biggest banks...