Word: zero
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...institution's routine. Sample entry: "Regular meeting of the trust committee. The Trust Company's own bond account reviewed; market value on Dec. 31, 1935 substantially exceeded book value. . . . Purchases and sales of more than 100 items of securities for 48 trust accounts approved." Another entry: "Temperature zero. Practically no one seemed in the mood to visit the bank today; lobbies quiet...
...abrupt exit was almost equivalent to "breaking off diplomatic relations"'-the traditional prelude to war. In the capital of Manchukuo, snow-bound Hsinking, the Japanese-directed government of Emperor Kang Te branded the fighting last week as "undeclared war" and seemed ready to fight at 30° below zero. In Tokyo, which was digging out from a record snowfall of twelve inches, the temperature was warmer last week than in Hsinking, but cooler-headed was the Japanese Government than the Government of Manchukuo. Japanese bluff & bluster has been loud during the years in which Bolsheviks have meekly...
...unionists protested. The man was rehired to haul ashes. This pretext led to a union v. union strike, which in turn led to a shutdown at the distillery last month. Strikers promptly threw a line of pickets around the plant. The campaign was getting along nicely, in spite of zero weather, when a busload of scabs suddenly broke through the picket line under a tear-gas barrage laid down by Police Chief Harry C. Donahue. Thereupon, Leader Mahoney took an ultimatum to Mayor William E. Schurman: unless the distillery agreed to cease "discriminating" against A. F. of L. unionists...
...South Seas there is no commuting to the office, no zero weather, not one house-to-house salesman. But there are hurricanes. And even in Miami they will tell you that a hurricane is no joke. If you live on an atoll, its highest point a few feet above the water, a hurricane may well be the end of your world. Authors Nordhoff & Hall, who for the last 16 years have lived in the South Seas as exiles from civilization, write about a hurricane as two having authority. As popularizers of the epic tale of H. M. S. Bounty they...
...Sarnoff was willing to pay out all his profits in dividends, 1935 earnings would come to a little under 28? a share on 18,500,000 shares. The B holder, with 7 common shares, would get $1.96 for each B share now held, which was better than the zero dollars he has received in the past four years. And the common holder would get 28? a share, which would be 28? a share more than he had ever before received...