But during the war, steel stock soared to a hundred and thirty-six dollars per share; it paid dividends of some thirty per cent per year, and accumulated enormous surpluses besides.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair
This was accomplished by price supports and through elimination of price-depressing surpluses by paying the growers to cut down their crop acreage.
"Frying Pan Farm"
Elizabeth Brown Pryor
He's agoin' to give us all the church surpluses to wash and his house-wash, too.
"Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley"
Belle K. Maniates