Word: biggest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...What three U. S. companies did the biggest business last year...
Publishers. The biggest, the central town criers' gathering, was that of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association. They met in the big Waldorf ballroom and reporters stood at the door jotting down, together with the great names of U. S. newspaperdom, other publishing names variously distinguished: J. W. Green of the Buffalo Express, who claimed he had attended more A. N. P. A. conventions than any other man alive (the reporter failed to note the record number); Zell Hart Deming of the Warren, Ohio, Tribune-Chronicle, "only publisher in the U. S. who does her own fruitcanning"; the ample Frank Rostock...
...general manager for two years, when the president of the Erie sent for him. In 1910, before he was 50, the B. & 0. sent for him again, this time to be president. His conduct of that line wag such that in 1917, President Wilson picked him to direct the biggest railroading job ever attempted in this country-integrating all U. S. lines under Federal control...
...well that within two weeks of first announcement orders of $20,000,000 came in. People liked the machine, liked the prices. So the stockholders in meeting last week learned that their factory production-schedule the first quarter of this year was the highest in history, that their biggest business year lies before them...
...GREAT VALLEY?Mary Johnston?Little, Brown ($2). Here is one of the biggest canvases of the year, a high and deep wilderness panorama, the Great Valley or Shenando Country?New Virginia, as they called it, whither John Selkirk came with his family to have the God of his Scotch fathers in peace. Historical fidelity and great narrative sweep are executive abilities of the author, who came to fame in 1900 with To Have and to Hold, and last year scored with another novel of early Virginia, The Slave Ship...