Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...searched fruitlessly for the next 45. Running wide and fast, Air Pilot Sam found not a bird. This time, however, he handled like a champion and the judges, after matching his two performances, gave him the title, Handler Farrior the $1,500 purse and a leg on the Robert Worth Bingham Trophy to Owner Lambert D. Johnson, president of Evansville, Ind.'s Mead, Johnson Co. (baby food...
...sportsmen's associations in State Federations. To the second North American conference in St. Louis last week went 800 representatives of 46 State Federations with some 3,000,000 members. Already they had secured enough State conservation legislation to make Founder Darling feel that his efforts had been worth while. Egged on by his eloquence, they now ratified a national Federation constitution, elected him president with a roar, planned an aggressive national crusade to convince the country's legislators of wildlife conservation's important place in the national picture of land utilization, forest preservation, water purification, erosion...
Cast up last week by the Department of Commerce's Finance Division were the grand accounts of U. S. foreign trade and international payments for 1936. To foreigners the U. S. sold $2,453,000,000 worth of goods, 8% more than the year before. From foreigners the U. S. bought goods worth $2,419,000,000, an increase of nearly 20%. Result was the smallest balance in favor of the U. S. since the days of Grover Cleveland ($34,000,000 as against $236,000,000 in 1935). Furthermore, the U. S. paid out $60,000,000 more...
Another case of conflicting interests over another and bigger foreign defaulter was before SEC last week. After more than two years of futile effort to get Germany to amplify registration statements covering $69,000,000 worth of 3% scrip to be issued to present holders of German bonds in settlement of past-due interest, SEC finally gave up. It allowed the registration to become effective but not without a bold attempt to supply on its own hook some of the missing information it deemed vital to investors, particularly a hint as to the Reich's "secret debt...
...been paid regularly at rates varying from 2% to 4¼%. Moreover, these banks hold a considerable amount of Reich Treasury notes on which 3½% interest not only is paid but paid monthly in advance. Meantime, with a few conspicuous exceptions, the owners of $800,000,000 worth of German bonds have not received a penny in nearly three years...