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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shouting "We fought! You vote!" were motored by Communists and Socialists about German cities last week in an effort to rouse sluggish citizens for the great Referendum (TIME, June 21 et ante) held to deprive Wilhelm II and the erstwhile German nobility without compensation of property valued at five billion gold marks previously seized by the Reich...
...over the U. S. flocked manufacturers and dealers in musical instruments and materials-more than 1,000 of them-for an annual convention. For five days they sat in sessions-little sessions, big sessions-talked music, not in a hushed, long-haired way, but loudly, statistically. "More than a billion dollars," they were told, "is spent each year by the people of the U. S. on music in all its phases. . . . Ten million pianos in use today in the U. S. alone...
...five months many of the most aristocratic names in Hungary have been befouled by political scandal, as princes, bishops and even the chief of police of Budapest have been implicated one by one in a gigantic plot to forge 30 billion French francs and expend them in financing the return by violence of the Habsburg dynasty to Hungary (TIME...
Although some U. S. firms have done an annual gross business of more than a billion dollars (TIME, May 24), none until last week was capitalized at that figure.* The American Telephone & Telegraph Co. has just made the mark by issuing $154,000,000 of new stock and thus bringing its outstanding total to $1,075,597,500. New shares will be distributed to present stockholders on a 1:6 ratio...
...This billion-and-an-eighth turnover (resulting in net earnings of $111,231,355) pays no little tribute to the restless business genius of Walter Clark Teagle. Once, not so long ago, he was indecisive about a career. He had done so well by getting his Cornell B. S. degree in chemistry in three years (he matriculated at 18) that that University offered him an instructorship with a professorship in sight. The initial salary of $600 annually tempted him little. However, the academic life...