Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gentlemen, we realize that a man in public life must submit to a certain amount of license, slander, and calumny, but I am sure that you must now realize that the waste basket is certainly not too severe a fate even for TIME in this case. What would you do about...
...Universal Air Lines system. Those will be the largest, most expensive standard ships ever built in the U. S. The Keystone Patrician, too huge to fit into Detroit's Convention Hall, after making a 25,000-mile circuit of the country without a difficulty, costs almost the same amount...
Meanwhile a shaggy Irish terrier crouched outside the Ambassador's Paris bedroom. "Whiskey" was the dog's name, and no amount of lobbying could make Ambassador Herrick change...
...What is needed today, it seems to me, is a deep conviction, which should amount almost to a religious repentance, that we Chinese are backward in everything and that every other modern nation in the world is much better off than we are. For all this we have ourselves to blame! Let us no longer deceive ourselves with self-complacent talks about imperialistic powers hampering our national progress and prosperity. Let us read the recent history of Japan and bury our conceit and self-deception once for all in shame and repentance...
Largest European corporation is I. G. Farbenindustrie A. G. (TIME, April 1), largest European earner as well with its $25,000,000 (1927) net income. Yet, though 25 million is no puny amount in any man's hemisphere, U. S. corporations would hardly stand awed at its magnitude. Of some 500 U. S. companies thus far reporting 1928 earnings, 28 exceeded the I. G. F. A. G. figure. Nine passed the $50,000,000 mark. Of these nine U. S. Steel and American Tel. & Tel. exceeded $100,000,000, and General Motors established its own class with the astonishing earnings...