Word: books
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Discretionary with directors, the plan gives employes up to 12½% of earnings available for common stock dividends after deducting 8 % of the stock's average book value...
...aircraft industry, Canadian Associated's orders, on the book and in prospect, would be nothing to go into a barrel roll over. (Seven U. S. builders have backlogs of over $20,000,000 each; two, over $60,000,000 each.) But the Canadian industry probably will have plenty to do in digesting the amount of business available...
Sandburg bought this place eleven years ago, about the time he started work on The War Years, the second part of his biography of Abraham Lincoln. In the attic he put a stove, a cot, a few chairs and a lot of book shelves. Near a corner window he put his typewriter on an old box whose height suited him. He liked to tell people that if Grant and those fellows could run their war from cracker boxes, a cracker box was good enough for him. This attic and a room on the second floor called the Lincoln Room came...
...Lincoln was up against a Congress in which at one time there were just three Representatives defending him. During the bitterest weeks of the war his own family came under suspicion of treason. One of the most awesome scenes in the book is that of the secret meeting which the Senate Committee on the Conduct of the War held early in 1863 to consider this rumor. A member told...
...execution of the book is not flawless; Sandburg's method of filing and attacking his material by subject as well as by chronological batches seems to have caused a few unconscious repetitions. A few-but very few-allusions will remain unclear to readers who are not students of the period. There is at times a certain bleakness...