Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What I maintain is that if there is one radical teacher in the schools, colleges, or universities of this state, and this Oath Bill does away with him, it is worth more than words can tell...
Last week U. S. investment bankers were busy night & day manufacturing at least $1,000,000,000 worth of new securities for the spring trade. Very little of this financial excitement reflected any desire on the part of businessmen to build new plants or buy new equipment. With a few exceptions such as the prospective $40,000,000 Jones & Laughlin bond issue, three-fourths of which will go into new steel mills, and the $10,000,000 of equipment trust certificates to be sold by two of U. S. Steel's railroad subsidiaries for the purchase of freight cars...
...competition and direct-to-retailer selling by manufacturers. One jobber who has refused to accept this fate is Butler Brothers, one of the biggest U. S. wholesale houses.* Last week Butler's President Frank Simpson Cunningham told his stockholders that in 1935 their company sold $73,000,000 worth of hardware, cutlery, jewelry, furniture, notions, dresses, towels, etc., and retained $1,285,000 as net profit. That was a little better than Butler had done the year before, though below the figure for 1933, when rising prices helped boost profits...
...their behalf by Wall Street banking houses. The extra $1 did not actually go to the investment bankers. But in the open market people scrambled to buy investment trust stocks for a price which was twice the value of the assets behind them. Assumption was that any banker worth the name could, in a trice, make at least 100% on money entrusted to his care. When it was belatedly discovered that banker-managed investment trusts could lose money just as fast as any individual investor, a terrific public revulsion occurred. One result was the quick growth in the first years...
...girl he was rich, took her on a luxurious West Indies honeymoon, gave her so many orchids other passengers knew her as "The Orchid Lady." Then he brought her home to his Manhattan flat and showed her the gas range. In one month of home life she used 24? worth of gas. Last week he sued for a separation. Ruled Justice McGeehan: "Unless she goes back to her husband and does the work which is concomitant to an income of not over $35 a week, she has no defense...