Word: ups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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British papers, still sold in France, are avidly read for news suppressed by French censors. The London Times and Daily Telegraph run to 16 pages, censored before they are set up in type, without those mysterious omissions that irritate readers of the French press. A typical French daily has only...
Early last month Curtis Publishing Co. stockholders received a proposition. It was a Plan. Its proposals: Let holders of 7% preferred agree to exchange up to two-thirds of the total shares held for a $4.50 prior preferred; let the new shares have preference over the old in future dividends...
Quick to cry "Watch!" were the preferred stockholders. Said a Wall Street brokerage house: "Preferred stockholders get nothing in return for their sacrifices; common stockholders make no sacrifices in return for their benefits." President G. W. Cox of Boston's John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. did what no...
But the war did not start. Last week, in a paneled room off Independence Square, the directors of Curtis sat down before President Fuller to consider the Plan again. All, including brisk, slender Mary Curtis Bok and her ruddy-cheeked son, Gary Bok, agreed they wanted no Plan that might...
If you step up and tell her where.