Word: size
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Transport Industry's Size. Three-quarters of a billion dollars are now invested in the entire aviation industry. Forty-five companies are transporting mail, express and passengers over 75,000 miles daily. Last year they carried 52,934 passengers. This year the number will approximate 150,000. Only between San Francisco and Los Angeles and between New York and Boston do ships frequently have all passenger seats sold. Passenger traffic does not yet pay its way. Mail contracts, which represents the U. S. government's way of furnishing the transport companies their essential subsidies, almost pay the operating expenses...
...Though size may not have entered into Mr. Mitchell's calculations, he has driven his institution to the top in this respect. Ranked according to total resources, the ten largest banks in the world...
...feature made possible by the size of this year's squad will be second University team whose management will be in the hands of Coach Fred Kennedy, former Tufts football star and soccer player. For the first time an organized Harvard second team will play a schedule of its own ending with a final game against the Yale seconds...
...subject also to mergers, combinations, monopolization. It was the monopolistic aspect of the circus which last week attracted attention. For, through buying out American Circus Corp., John Ringling, large, two-chinned proprietor of Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus became owner of every U. S. circus of any considerable size. American Circus Corp. was the management company for Sells-Floto, John Robinson, Hagenbeck-Wallace, Sparks and Al G. Barnes circuses. In absorbing American Circus Corp.. Mr. Ringling in one all-embracing gesture eliminated competition in a manner which in almost any other field would have excited public clamor...
That balance will depend, obviously, upon what they have ever developed within themselves to draw upon. All the constructive, negotiable things they have cemented into habit-that will determine the size of the balance...