Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...withstanding all this and the scornful claim of the cognoscenti that after all the Pops are not cultural but pander to the vulgar taste for the simple and obvious, the Vagabond will attend them, and will be seen almost any night, armed with the proper sustenance and a cigar, listening to the music and wishing that the beer were real and that he were sitting under the cool and fragrant shade of the linden trees in--But that is pure nostalgia...
...example of the tremendous strides made in retail merchandising is the R. H. Macy Company, which in the past twenty-five or forty years has grown from a little store in the lower end of Manhattan Island to an international merchandising organization, with its headquarters occupying almost a complete block in Herald Square. Its personnel ranges from seven or eight thousand in the dull season to fourteen thousand at the time of the heaviest Christmas business, and its total annual sales run almost to the hundred million mark...
...changes have frequently been suggested in different meetings of the Minor Sports Council. Already there are a large number of universities which have abolished the distinction between a major and minor letter, the University of Pennsylvania being one of the leaders in this field in the East, and in almost every case there has been a noticeable increase in the participation in minor sports, without any loss in the prestige which accompanies playing on what had been one of the major teams...
...exports to China were almost 50% greater than in 1927, China buying slightly more U. S. merchandise than Italy. Exports to Japan also expanded (12% over 1927), Japan outranking all the Continental countries except Germany. Chinese were enthusiastic buyers of leaf tobacco, cigarets and illuminating oil; Japan leaned toward cotton and automobiles...
...rapidly, was made first Essex president when the company was formed (1918). President McAneeny succeeds the late R. B. Jackson, who died last month in Mentone. Prosperous are both divisions of the McAneeny family. In March, Hudson shipped 44,295 cars, exceeding its March 1928 (record month) production by almost 11,000. Hudson-Essex, combined, produced more than 108,000 units in the first three months of 1929, are scheduled for an April production of 45,000. Hudson enjoyed a record-breaking first quarter in 1929, earning $4,567,783 or $2.68 per share. Production included 1,585 cars sent...