Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...covering assignments, and writing up the stories which appear in the daily issues of the paper constitute the chief part of the news candidates work. Ability to get advertising is usually the decisive factor in the competition for the Business board, although the collection of subscriptions and a certain amount of office work also play a part in the Business aspirant's career...
...Supreme Court declared such courts unconstitutional. The referendum would have made such courts constitutional in Ohio. *Machines in which betters place their money on their chosen horses, receiving tickets in return. The betting odds of each race are figured by the machines in ratio to the total amount bet on each horse and winners cash in their tickets at these odds, which are not announced until after each race. The machines also figure out a percentage for their operators, and for the State...
Industry. Although a vast amount of capital has been expended on Russian industry by the government, it remains the most serious problem that the Soviet is facing. The basic reason for this is that, with its bureaucratic control, its restricted markets, and its general inefficiency, Russian industry is not able to turn out goods cheap enough to appeal to the peasantry, its logical customer...
...announced, almost as casually, that the corporation would pay to owners of their 17,400,000 shares (E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. own 25%) $65,250,000. In this amount, largest ever disbursed to shareholders at one time by any industrial concern, was a bonus of $2.50 for each share besides the regular quarterly dividend...
...their editorial comments they have expressed their own ideas, not those of "undergraduate sentiment". The news value of even a Penn game on the Monday after it was played, with less than a total of 90 inches of news space in the CRIMSON, hardly exceeds ten inches--the amount given on the day in question. No metropolitan paper gives one ninth of its news columns to intercollegiate football...