Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Pepperdine, a restless $15-a- week bookkeeper in a Kansas City (Kans.) garage, entered the auto supply business in 1909 with nothing to his name but $5 worth of stamps and a printing bill. Tirelessly circularizing small-town bankers and car owners, George Pepperdine sold that year $12,000 worth of tops, tires, gadgets. Five years later he opened a branch of his thriving Western Auto Supply Co. in Denver. When rich Mr. Pepperdine sold his controlling interest and retired to California, he became so twitchy that he started a new Western Auto Supply Co. on the Pacific Coast...
...freely and importantly in the world of Henry Edward Krehbiel. Philip Hale, James Gibbons Huneker, Henry Theophilus Finck. Patti was more than a name to them, and Sembrich a vivid, unforgettable presence. Each had worked tirelessly to establish Brahms in the U. S. Each had seen Debussy's worth when inferiors were yelping about his "decadence" and "lack of form." The great fight over Wagner was no legend to them: they had helped...
...fresh crop of rumors that the U. S. Treasury was about to cut its buying price, an avalanche of hoarded gold hit the market. Day after day the morning offerings swelled until they reached an all-time one-day high of 1,493 bars- about $21,000,000 worth. By week's end $65,000,000 worth of the precious metal had passed over the table in Rothschild's. Most of it was bought by the British Stabilization Fund, for although the price dropped steadily few private buyers cared to risk a sudden...
...London, causing such uproar that the idea was dropped like a hot brick. Whatever the value of that story, a quick glance at gold figures is enough to convince anyone that the U. S. is holding the bag. During the past year the Treasury has bought $800,000,000 worth of gold, none of which it needed. Imports last week pushed total U. S. gold stocks above the staggering figure...
...national debt, for in its sterilization program the Treasury has to borrow the money to buy the gold it puts in cold storage. Since last December when the sterilization program was inaugurated to keep gold imports from inflating the credit structure any further, more than $800,000,000 worth of dead metal has been bought and locked...