Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their service consists of setting the Chemical Foundation going just 10 years ago, of buying for $271,850 the almost priceless German chemical patents (explosives, dyestuffs, drugs) which the Government had confiscated as a War retaliation, of licensing U. S. producing chemists to use those patents on a royalty basis. The Chemical Foundation has changed the U. S. Chemical industry from a whining, rickety infant to a closemouthed, lustry brute, equal to Germany's and England's. For ten years the brute has paid the Foundation its millions of royalties, and for ten years the Foundation has given...
...other point, Col. Stewart was insistent, almost dramatic; he refused to believe that John D. Rockefeller Sr. is opposed...
Chicago. With a soil fertile for racketeering, Chicago offers an excellent recent specimen of a well-grown and perfectly-formed dry cleaning racket. An organization known as the Chicago Master Cleaners' and Dyers' Association had acquired almost a monopoly in Chicago dyeing and cleaning. Members paid a $500 initiation fee and put up a $5,000 bond as a "guarantee of good faith." Bombing, slugging, sabotage, strike-fomenting and other standard methods were used to secure membership; eventually 92 members were lined up. They paid the association a general levy of 2% of gross business. There was also a subordinate...
...unusual exhibit is on display in the entrance hall of the Museum. This is a fossilized slab of rock from Agate Springs, Nebraska, in which are located the bones of a rhinoceros, so thickly scattered as to make an almost solid pavement. This slab has been prepared in such a way as to show the bones of the animal, in the position in which, they were washed in the bed of an ancient river. The slab was found in a prairie, which was formerly the bed of this river. The slab is to be placed in a glass case...
...survey? He says it has no meaning and that he won't have anything to do with it. The Dean of George Washington is a graduate of Harvard. The ungenial mother snubs her own son. What is infinitely worse, she kicks against an irresistible and "thoroughly American" custom that almost has the force...