Word: butting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Steel-Cement. Building contractors who go shopping for steel usually also have to go shopping for cement. Last week United States Steel Corp. offered to exchange some $31,000,000 of its stock for Atlas Portland Cement Co. which produces 19,000,000 barrels a year. Other cement companies realized...
But Business, not Astronomy, is the loudest and strongest change urger. For under the present irregular system, accounting is beset by problems when it tries to compare the costs of months whose working days vary in number.
Famed as leader of "calendar reform" is George Eastman. Last week to his side came Julius Rosenwald's Sears, Roebuck & Co. which announced it will operate next year on a 13-month schedule. To its customers, the introduction of some new month such as "Sol" will mean nothing, but 40...
While a uniform calendar has many advantages, its opponents argue glibly. Cost and confusion of a change would be overwhelming. Religious days such as Easter could not be fixed without the Church's approval. But state and city holidays wishing the new calendar can freely follow Sears, Roebuck's example...
*The origin of the present calendar year was in 46 B.C. when Julius Caesar ordered the solar Julian Calendar to supersede the old lunar one. in this calendar every other month had 31 days, the rest 30, except February which had 29 except in leap year when it had 30...