Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chairman of the Palestine Electric Corp. with a paid capital of $5,000,000. The British government and the General Electric Co. took care of $2,000,000, and $750,000 was invested by the Zionist organization. The German Electric Corp. offered to subscribe $750,000, but thought better of it when informed that the "P. E," (Palestine Electric Corp.) would purchase all its equipment in Britain...
Chicago hears more and better French opera than Manhattan,* Manhattan more and better German opera. Recently a German Grand Opera Company arrived in Manhattan and advertised that it would give Wagner's Ring operas uncut, "according to the traditions of Bayreuth." Manhattan's critics were unanimously offended by the inferiority of the productions (TIME, Jan. 28) and the company left town. Last fortnight the same company gave performances in Chicago. After the Rheingold, the first in Chicago for more than a decade, Chicago seemed unanimously pleased. Critic Maurice Rosenfeld of the Chicago Daily News wrote: "The company began...
...Reading to give us secure access to New York. Remember that the New York Central and the Pennsylvania are twice as long as we are and make more money per mile of track. Just give us these roads we have mentioned, and a few others, and we will be better able to compete with our big rivals and all the cities we reach will get better service. Thus spoke the Baltimore & Ohio, seeking to consolidate lines that would increase its trackage from 5,200 to 14,141 miles, its investment from slightly under one billion to slightly more than...
President Pelley found his new railroad in better condition than it has been for many a year. In 1928 the New Haven began paying regular quarterly dividends on its common stock for the first time since its overexpansion...
Photographer Henry Sharp, Director Allan (Robin Hood) Dwan, and Costume Designer Maurice Leloir, who has illustrated the best printed edition of Dumas, supply that scrupulous historical detail which has always made Fairbanks pictures an improvement, for U. S. audiences, on the work of romantic authors. Better also than Dumas, rhythm and comedy are by Fairbanks. He has fought victoriously with life some inner battle which for most people ends in defeat. Middle age has failed to slow up his body. He enables audiences of all ages to study what it is that makes boys the real superiors of grownups...