Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amount of liquor toped and swizzled in Sweden has been approximately halved during the past 15 years. Arrests for drunkenness have been halved. Crimes of violence have been reduced almost two-thirds. Swedes give the credit to Dr. Ivan Bratt. Yet he has just resigned as President of the Swedish Liquor & Wine Trust: a unique corporation, doing business with the strange object of making as few sales as possible yet always paying to contented shareholders...
Since Dr. Bratt holds that food counteracts the effects of alcohol, Swedish restaurants may dispense liquor with meals after 12 noon, but not more than 2½ ounces to a patron before 3 p.m. Afterwards, it becomes possible by ordering an indefinite succession of meals, to tope an indefinite amount...
...Gigantic as this combine appears, International Paper considered, last week, yet another merger of giant proportions. To the already great capacity of its 30-odd mills, it contemplated adding the resources of the rival Abitibi Power and Paper Co., Ltd. Abitibi Power holdings, developed and in reserve, amount to 700,000 h. p. Timber resources approximate 55,000,000 cords. Its mills can turn out 650,000 tons of newsprint yearly. Should Abitibi merge with International Paper, the resulting company would in effect dominate the world's newsprint production, would be one of the major power units of North...
...announcing U. S. approval of a charter for yet another national bank in Manhattan's Wall Street. Initial capital and surplus of the proposed Commercial National Bank and Trust Co. will total $12,000,000. No national bank, Comptroller Mclntosh revealed, has ever started with so large an amount...
Experience has taught the U. S. Post Office Dept. that the public uses about 3,200,000,000 stamped envelopes each year. Accordingly, finding its supply low, it advertised last month for bids to supply envelopes over a period of four years, in the amount...