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...riverfront be leased upon the same valuation, not yet announced but estimated as approximately $8,000,000 or $45 for a square foot. At this rate, all the 2,800,000 square feet on which the Illinois Central controls the air rights would produce an annual 5% rental of $6,300,000 or a revenue sufficient to pay more than $4.75 on each share of its common stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Marts | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...survey conducted by Popular Science Monthly shows that the actual costs of flying among amateur pilots is much lower than generally supposed. Planes cost from $400 to $12,000, with the average around $3,000, about the cost of a Pierce-Arrow automobile. Hangar rental costs from $15 to $50 a month, with the average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Air Flivvers | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...thousand U. S. banks will be able to check up their depositors' withdrawals by photography before this year's end. Eastman Kodak Company's new Recordak apparatus (rental, $300 a year, capacity 16,000 checks per $5 in films) will provide conclusive proof that checks have really been paid. The Eastman Co. convinced itself of the usefulness and salability of the machine before it incorporated Recordak Corporation for $1,000,000 last fortnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Checked | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...founded the National Bug-Killer Co., which rented to thousands of farmers, by mail, a machine guaranteed to kill each & every insect or worm. The machine consisted of two blocks of wood-"you put the bug you wanted to kill on one block and squashed him with the other." Rental $2. Tony disappeared when the Postoffice got inquisitive, and left Deacon Miscombe holding the bag. In War, Aviator Tony annoyed a German sausage balloon and shot down a Fokker plane with the words: "Jeeze, what'd you want to pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Parachute | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...carry a green light to identify the driver as a student. Such a ruling, it adopted at Harvard, would prevent the law from molesting any of the town as long as the gown was accessible. But a financial panic in Harvard Square would be the result of the auto rental rules, a disaster that would be comparable only to that historic incident in which hundreds lost all but the clothes on their backs the great Valeteria Bubble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WEARING OF THE GREEN | 11/17/1927 | See Source »

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