Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that 30 grocery stores failed in that city each month and 32 new ones opened up. . . . A 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...
...active politician, he worked hard through the American Legion for the Hoover nomination, campaigned through the Southwest, was the Hoovers' house guest at Inauguration. Favorite Hurley campaign expression: "A greater number of people have been happier under the American flag for a greater length of time than under the flag of any other nation." This phrase was ghost-written for him but, with characteristic onrushingness and vitality, he made...
...reported: "The morale of the Navy is high, the health of the personnel excellent, the condition of re-enlistments entirely satisfactory, and the number of desertions comparatively small...
...learn that his sister-in-law had been clapped into a Washington jail. She had, of course, done nothing disgraceful. "Votes for women" was a fashionable as well as a militant movement then and Mrs. Elizabeth ("Lil") White Rogers had only been doing what a number of other strong-minded ladies then thought necessary and honorable-picketing Woodrow Wilson in the White House. Dr. John Rogers, famed Manhattan surgeon, college mate (Yale '87) of Mr. Stimson (Yale '88), went and bailed out his wife. Lawyer Stimson and his wife, who was Mabel of the famed New Haven, Conn...
Last week, however, Blue Ridge and Shenandoah sponsors gave first aid to their injured. To Blue Ridge was sold a large block of Central States Electric at a price considerably below the market. Seller, number of shares and price were not announced. But Blue Ridge assets showed a November appreciation of $12,000,000 and Central States on the day of the sale closed at 28. One method of giving Blue Ridge a $12,000,000 profit would have been to sell it 1,000,000 shares of Central States at 16 (12 points below the market...