Word: well
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does not reduce the corporation's profit below the 8% figure. Furthermore, Mr. Unger leider himself is the only member of Samuel Ungerleider & Co. who is on the board of Ungerleider Financial Corp. Thus precautions have been taken against the common accusation that an investment trust may well be profitable to its management, not profitable to its investors...
...securities would instead buy those securities (that is, if a corporation bought 1,000 shares of stock instead of putting into the call money market $100,000 secured by those 1,000 shares) brokers' loans would diminish, the market would still be supported, and all would be well. But this solution remains impossible as long as the Reserve Board keeps threatening a collapse in security values. On this commodity inflation point, the dissenting banker would probably wonder how it was that money which would dangerously inflate commodities could be made so harmless, so innocent, when applied to Stock Market...
...high for the year has been 83 (low 72) the inference would be that the purchase was made somewhat by the outsider's proverbial system of buying at the high and selling at the low. Yet, with railroads showing best earnings in years, Mr. Broun might well be told to hang on to his railroad stock, nor let his heart be troubled...
...highways and hedgerows of the U. S., as well as the fashionable avenues, have been combed to find a bishop coadjutor for the Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania. Four were asked, four refused. Rector Henry Knox Sherrill of Boston's Trinity Church preferred to stay in Boston. Bishop Edward Makin Cross of Spokane, who was supposed to have relations in Philadelphia who would make that city attractive to him, preferred to stay in Spokane. Rector Russell Bowie of Grace Church, Manhattan, declined next, and then Dean William Scarlett of Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis. The situation was beginning to suggest...
...Helium, which is almost as light as hydrogen, has the great advantage of being non-inflammable. But, rare, it is expensive (about $35 per 1,000 cu. ft.). It is found mixed with natural gas. Hitherto there have been but two chief U. S. helium sources: 1) the Federal well at Amarillo, Tex.,? which yields 1.75% of helium; 2) Helium Co.'s well at Dexter, Kan., which yields 2.4% of helium...