Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stringy and taciturn, long-faced and lugubrious, Oklahoma's Carl Hubbell is no iron man. In the past summer, far from appearing in every game, he has appeared in a mere 42. To students of pitching, however, the 42 might well be worth all of Gehrig's 1,800. Almost every one has been a pitching masterpiece. In Pitcher Hubbell's proudest record there is less than one game for every 100 of First-Baseman Gehrig's, but the record is not, on that account, the less impressive. In the long history of organized baseball, until...
Most important factor in M.I.T.'s existence is a concern which has the exclusive right to sell its stock. Directly and through dealers Massachusetts Distributors, Inc. last year sold $38,000,000 worth of M.I.T. shares. The trust receives an amount equal to the liquidating value of its shares already outstanding on the day new shares are sold, so that there is no dilution of equity. For its commission the selling company adds about 5% (reduced from 8%). On repurchases from stockholders who want to sell the trust pays the full liquidating value, though it has the right...
...policies of Mr. Sprague and his colleagues have yielded M.I.T. dividends in every year since the trust was founded. M.I.T. investors have been able to sell their stock for its real worth at times when shares in common trusts were selling at disastrous discounts from liquidating value. If they were primarily seeking to increase their capital, M.I.T. investors must have been disappointed. High for M.I.T. stock in 1929 was about $65 per share, the 1932 low about $11. Since then the price, which is approximately the liquidating value, has risen to $28, still less than one-half the boomtime figure...
...Pell's donation was made with the understanding that the prints would be used as free loans to students during the term. There are approximately 175 pieces, among them some Rembrandts of fairly early impression, a few Whistler etchings, and a number of Pennells, and many others of varying worth...
This week the Fine Arts is showing a film well worth seeing "Nine Days A Queen" does not equal "Henry VIII" but it is in the same tradition. The story centers about the struggle for power among the nobility after the demise of Henry VIII, with the highest lords of the realm backing successors to the throne...