Word: calendar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since most state legislatures are in session and have the amendment in their calendar, the final score of ratifications and rejections cannot be given. The score at time of writing stood, however...
...prosperity of chain stores continues to be the admiration and despair of most other lines of trade and industry. For the calendar year of 1924, the F.W. Woolworth Co. showed net, after depreciation and taxes of $20, 669,397, $7.95 on each of its present 2,600,000 common shares, or $31.80 on its 650,000 shares of old stock, upon which $31.84 was earned in 1923. Woolworth has assets totaling $92,422,858, compared with...
Even more striking has been the success of the S.S. Kresge Co., which reported net income of $10,114,163 for the calendar year of 1924. This, after preferred dividends, amounts to $40.66 on each share of common stock, compared with $38.14 in 1923. In the Kresge balance sheet, some striking changes are likewise apparent. . Surplus is now $15,398,585 as against $11,161,180 in 1923. In addition to its regular $2.00 quarterly dividend, Kresge directors have declared a 50% stock dividend to holders...
...said in favor of the new column: never will it be governed by calendar or clock. Without premeditation and sans arriere pensee, in a simple effusion from the heart. The Crime will come, like a Quaker's meeting, whenever the spirit moves. On the whole it is expected that the spirit will vibrate, or knock, or whatever it is spirits do, about once a week...
...absurd for New York City to retain a school calendar devised for the purpose of releasing big boys from rural school for haying and harvesting. It is absurd for healthy children in high school to have a ten weeks' summer vacation, with weeks off at Christmas and Easter, when their hard-worked fathers, who pay for it all, get little or none...