Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Radios by G.M. The vast preferred stock dividends of General Motors Corp. have, for many a moon, been paid by profits from an iceless refrigerator-Frigidaire. Last week there was talk that radio-making might someday swell the profits of , this world's-biggest-money-making corporation. For, last week...
When Senior Rand was killed in an airplane crash in 1919, Buffalonians knew little of Junior Rand except that he was 27, had worked in all the departments of his father's bank, served in the Y. M. C. A. during the War. Of this obscurity Banker Rand quickly divested...
During the first eight months of it required something more than $17,600,000 per day to finance the birth and the growth of U. S. industry. Total new financing up to Aug. 31 reached the figure of $4,231,847,000-money raised at the rate of a half...
It is said that every U. S. city with a population of more than 100,000 has put up part of its public buildings with bonds marketed through Harris, Forbes & Co. As a logical development of its municipal business, the company has in more recent years become almost equally outstanding...
All this disturbed the worthies of official Mexico. Caricatured in characteristic poses, the bureaucrats were pictured as drunk, picking the pockets of symbolic figures or busy at murder and rape. Infuriated, they threatened to whitewash the walls. Students mobbed the building, stoned and scratched the murals. Finally the Minister of...