Word: whole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mark. No. 3 press lord is Lord Camrose of the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post* (700,000), a Conservative who suffers from gout and jaundice. No. 2 is Lord Rothermere. He acquired control of the Daily Mail (1.530,000) from his brother, Lord Northcliffe, a sensationalist who fathered the whole lordly breed. No. 1, by intelligence, ability, resource and his gift for the common touch-as well as by circulation figures- is William Maxwell (''Max") Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook. He is a fair little man whose possessions include the smile and manners of a spoiled bad boy, two other...
...constituency in which Aitken ran was Ashton-Under-Lyne, a Liberal stronghold. The lively little financier had brought with him from Canada something besides bonds, a passionate but practical belief in Empire. To keep the British Empire whole and strong he hit upon "Empire Free Trade"-which means the building of a tariff wall around the Empire and the tearing down of all tariffs within...
...reason was clear: the new trade treaty has been in the wind for several months and Wall Street discounted it in advance by rising, knowing that, though certain individual concerns might be hurt, any broad revival of international trade could not help but benefit U. S. industry as a whole...
...Henry D. Perky was granted a patent on machinery for manufacturing his "pillow shape" Shredded Wheat Biscuits. When the patent expired 17 years later, Kellogg Co. began making a whole-wheat biscuit: ten years later it made this biscuit frankly similar to Shredded Wheat in shape & size. By 1929 Kellogg had sold plenty of its pillow-shape biscuits. That year National Biscuit...
...invested in short-term loans for liquidity, produces virtually no income (interest on 91-day Treasury bills, for example, is only .027%). The few big banks doing well today are those like Chicago's Continental Illinois National and New York's Manufacturers Trust, which have gone whole hog into buying Government bonds...