Word: could
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent analysis of the restaurant business in Kansas City showed that of some 1,080 such establishments in 1928, 551 went out of business and almost exactly, the same number of new ones opened up. . . . If the present average turnover period in charge accounts of some 70 days could be shortened to, say, 40 days, the resultant values in saving in interest charges and by general acceleration of business would run into hundreds of millions of dollars...
Other Davis immigration proposals: preference under the quota to immigrants who could supply U. S. occupational needs: extension of quota restrictions to North, Central, South American countries...
...Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, president of the party, was detained in her Paris home, could not attend the convention. She sent the delegates a cablegram. In return, they re-elected her to office. Her absence, however, did prevent dedication of the new party headquarters on B Street, to which the feminists moved from their ''little capitol" building, condemned to make way for a new supreme court...
...more competing railroad systems. Congress was asked to make a "thorough investigation" of this latest corporate custom by which the I. C. C. feared its plan for rail consolidations "is very likely to be partially or even wholly defeated." The Commission admitted that for such a new threat it could not find an appropriate remedy...
...Nathan ("Nigger Nate") Raymond, describing a $300,000 stud poker game, said that McManus was a "cheerful loser." Bridget Farry, hotel chambermaid, who went to court in an emerald dress with a green ribbon in her hair, silver stockings and gilt shoes, refused to identify McManus. The prosecution could not connect McManus with the battered automatic, could not establish a motive why he should shoot Rothstein for owing him money...