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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Year he announced his third and biggest deal of the twelvemonth...
Someone, talking about Walter P. Chrysler two years ago, said: "The biggest game stays in the deep forest." The reference was to Mr. Chrysler's relative obscurity from the public eye during the years when he was the greatest doctor of sick automobile companies that the industry had ever known. Sweet are the uses of that sort of obscurity. All his life Chrysler has managed to make himself thoroughly well known in quarters where it would do him the most good...
Next to the Income Tax, the biggest source of Internal Revenue is the tax on tobacco. These collections, steadily increasing, were 64% of all miscellaneous Internal Revenue. Another increasingly productive source of Internal Revenue is documentary stamps. Stock market activity last year boosted sales of stock-transfer stamps to 24 millions, a 41% increase over...
Naturally enough, Judge Ewing's unconventional behavior on the bench not only created one of the biggest stories of the week but aroused fierce debate. Absurd though it may be to contemplate enforcement of birth control, most observers credited the Cleveland judge with having raised, sharply, an issue of paramount importance...
Cold winds blew Chicago's packing house stenches over the Union Stock Yard. But the trainloads of farmers, breeders, fitters, butchers, hay & grain raisers there with their families minded the fetid air not at all. They were in Chicago for their year's biggest holiday...