Word: buying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Well, I see by your letter page that Life also has a letter page. So I buy a copy of Life and see that it now has a political department, a sport and radio column. And then, that sap, Will Rogers, bigger than any of TIME'S saps, is writing for Life...
...case dated back to 1920-21, when Mayor Thompson and his friends (many of whom have since been his enemies) were making themselves popular by making Chicago beautiful. To widen streets and boulevards, they had to buy land. To buy land they had to have it appraised. Instead of paying fixed salaries to the appraisers, they had the City Council vote to pay the appraisers on a percentage basis. Thus, the higher the price fixed by the appraiser on a site, the higher the appraiser's fee. The appraisers, in turn, paid fat sums to the fund with which...
...manufacture of woolen and worsted cloths in the U. S. has been comparatively unprofitable, chiefly from this chain of causes: clothiers have believed that U. S. men and women will not buy much new clothing this year; so clothing manufacturers have been buying as few bolts of cloth as they dared, and still be able to serve their retailer customers; so woolen and worsted weavers must cut their business close to demand; that leaves much machinery idle and forbids profitable increase of prices. Particularly hard hit in this way have been the three great U. S. woolen goods fabricators-American...
Engaged. Marie Antoinette Claudel, daughter of French Ambassador to the U. S. Paul Claudel; and Roger Mequillet, vice president of the Societe des Grands Moulins de Paris, biggest flour mills in France. President Ernest Vilgrain of the Grands Moulins recently visited the U. S. to buy some 10,000,000 bushels of wheat (TIME...
...their vitality, theirs was an automatic existence. Octavia's frivolous hostess damns them as staunch Tories who nevertheless know nothing and care nothing about politics: "No one down here reads or writes. They eat, sleep, buy and sell horses, walk to the stables and back, tap the thermometer, fuss over their top boots, put ammonia in their baths; and such powers as they've got of conversation are exercised upon their stud grooms...