Word: buying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bank. Each of the other five players is dealt 20 cards from a 100 card deck divided into ten suits. Each suit stands for an industry, such as Coal Mine, Brickfield, Wagon Works, Loom, Pottery, Saw Mill, etc. During the course of the game, the Banker attempts to buy from the players all the cards of all the suits. As soon as he can absorb one entire suit, or establish a monopoly in that industry, he can add that suit, or that industry, to the assets of his bank. But if he, in the course of his purchases, lets...
...Last week there came to term $950,000 of Auburn notes. Holders had been able to buy Auburn stock at $83.91 per share...
...coincide remarkably with President Hoover's. Only the President's bitterest critics credit him with having been simple-minded or stubborn enough not to realize that Washington, with wet Maryland adjacent and the broad Potomac handy, is one of the easiest places in the U. S. to buy liquor. And only the fanatically Dry have failed to appreciate the sense of the Hoover policy on Prohibition, sharply announced soon after Inauguration (TIME, March 11). The gist of that policy was: "No more crusades...
...August Vincent Bendix, industrialist son of a Methodist minister, who starts and stops most of the world's automobiles (Bendix Drive, Mechanical Four-Wheel Brakes), gave to Swedish Explorer Sven Anders Hedin $135,000 with which to proceed to China, draw plans of two ancient Lama temples and buy their trappings. Last week Mr. Bendix was thanked by King Gustaf of Sweden for one of these temples which he had given to Stockholm. It will cost some $65,000, will be erected by Explorer Hedin, who will assemble the other one, also at Bendix expense, in Chicago. Purpose: ornamental...
...hour train service between New York and Chicago (TIME, Sept. 23) by the Pennsylvania and the New York Central. Last week there were many announcements that pointed toward railroad prosperity, although famed Stockmarket Bull Arthur W. Cutter was alleged to have indicated that railroad stocks were not a buy...