Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surprising in view of the fact that the investigation's prime purpose was to find out why investors lost upwards of $5,000,000,000 in investment trust securities during Depression. But in 1936 the trust managers demonstrated that they had learned a lot since they took off with ceiling zero in the late 19205. Not only did they mount the witness stand in Washington with penitence and goodwill, but also wrote a good record in their annual reports. In a study of 47 general management trusts, Tri-Continental Corp. last week announced that the average gain...
...penmanship got him his first job as a bookkeeper. By the late 18903 he was in business for himself, making bicycles. At 30 he had had enough of Elyria, sold out, headed for the cold shadows of Wall Street to begin his real career. In 1906 he took a hand in splicing a group of Midwest and Southern utilities into American Gas & Electric Co., six years later formed a higher and bigger holding company. Central States Electric, which eventually got working control of Great North American Co. (TIME...
Last year despite the Federal Communications Commission's investigation and resulting long distance rate reductions (TIME, June 8), A. T. & T. showed $9.35 per share. The Bell System as a whole took in $994,000,000 from operations, about two-thirds on local service, one-third on long distance. Other income amounted to $28,864,000, contributed largely by Western Electric Co., the equipment unit. Meantime the number of telephones had climbed back to within 740,000 of the all-time high. The year, wrote President Gifford, had been one of progress "in which the public, the employes...
...parsonage, led him to rebel against other sacred authorities, so that a later generation regarded him as "the first great exploder of Victorian hypocrisy, the pioneer rebel and inveigher against cant." Wrong, says Muggeridge. Far from being the great Anti, Butler was the Ultimate Victorian; his wildest crusades simply took him further into a Never-never Land. And Butler, says Muggeridge, was a thin-skinned snob, a spiteful prig...
...When Kipling's family discovered what kind of treatment he had been getting at Portsmouth (his mother visited him, went up to his room to say goodnight, and "I flung up an arm to guard off the cuff I had been trained to expect"), they immediately rescued him, took him off to a country cottage. There he met his cousin, one Stanley Baldwin. At 11 Rudyard was sent to boarding school, at Westward Ho!, a new school mainly for boys from Army families, memorialized in Stalky & Co. After graduation, instead of going on to a university, Kipling sailed back...