Word: transferred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sheila Klavan was a porter in Chicago. Lately he lost his job. All he owned was 2,000 shares of oil stock which had cost him $200. He wrote to Charles A. Dean, assistant trust officer of Empire Trust Co., Manhattan, transfer agent for the oil company, to find out what the stock was worth. Trust Officer Dean replied it was worth nothing, the company had blown...
...size of the Baker estate caused surprise, as it had been estimated at $150,000,000. The drop to some $75,000,000 was explained by the transfer of many securities to George Fisher Baker Jr., including 10,000 shares of First National Bank with a market value of $35,000,000. The market decline caused other great shrinkage. In 1929, with his Steel holdings worth $22,000,000, his First National holdings worth $8,500 a share. Banker Baker's wealth may well have neared the monster figure of a quarter-billion dollars...
...biggest in U.S. military history?occurred between the Argonne Forest and the Meuse River just west of Verdun. Foch's purpose was to drive the Germans back on the Ardennes Forest, coop them up, cut their rail communications to the western front. General Pershing had only two weeks to transfer his ist Army from St. Mihiel to this new sector and organize his attack. Many of his divisions were inexperienced in battle. Ahead of him lay rough, heavily fortified country...
...American Airways, Inc., between Cincinnati and Atlanta. Flying time is 4? hr., with stops at Louisville, Nashville, Chattanooga. Other strategic schedules, not so new, but of interest to the traveler who contemplates air transportation: Atlanta-Boston: Leave Atlanta 8 a.m. by Eastern Air Transport, for Newark Metropolitan Airport. Transfer there to American Airways (Colonial) to Boston, arriving 8 p.m. The southbound trip cannot be made in a single day from Boston, but from New York...
About Mr. Cromwell, international corporation lawyer, everyone knows. He negotiated the transfer of rights for a Panama Canal from French investors to the U. S. Government. He was one of the organizers of U. S. Steel Corp. He reorganized many a great U. S. corporation and put them, he likes to repeat, ''all on a paying basis...