Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week William Hushka's Bonus for $528 suddenly became payable in full when a police bullet drilled him dead in the worst public disorder the capital has known in years...
Steel Dividends. While newshawks who had been waiting about an hour held a mock directors' meeting, irreverent & bawdy, the solemn directors of United States Steel Corp. pondered the worst quarterly earnings statements in the company's history. They finally decided to vote the regular preferred dividend, but in explaining the action to the Press Chairman Myron C. Taylor made it abundantly clear that "improvement in business and net earnings must in future determine dividend action on the preferred stock." Because a very similar statement had presaged omission of the common dividend, because Steel operations last week were...
Infantile paralysis spreads through nose & throat secretions. Most cases are therefore found in crowded centres. Health authorities have definitely concluded that the epidemics of 1916 (worst in U. S. history) and of 1931 started in dirty, overcrowded Union Street, Brooklyn, between 3rd and 5th Avenues...
...Last week 64 roads had reported their May results. Gross revenues were $235,000,000, a 30.8% decrease from last year while net operating income was $9,965,000, a drop of 73%, worst so far reported for any month this year. For the first five months gross revenue was down 26%, net operating income 50%. Twenty-seven of the reporting roads showed deficits. Among the losers was New York Central which, despite a reduction of $6,000,000 in expenses, fell $226,000 short of earning anything at all on its bonds, bank loans and R. F. C. loan...
...Jurado, Diegel and Cox had finished with higher scores than his. But Cruickshank and Sarazen were still out on the course. Cruickshank reached the turn in 33 and Sarazen in 32. Cruickshank needed a 68 for the round to tie and Sarazen needed 69. They were playing against the worst hazard in golf, a carded score, and it looked as though a thunderstorm would blow over from Long Island Sound before they finished the last nine holes...