Word: centedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discussion that has taken place as to the accuracy of the Treasury's estimate of income taxes, is is worthy of note that with collections aggregating over two billion dollars they exceeded estimates by the narrow margin of nine million dollars, or error of .42 of one per cent...
...young Senator Tydings of Maryland, arch Senator Edwards of New Jersey, solid Senator Wagner of New York and other Wets. Hovering near were Anti-Saloon Leaguers; Captain William H. Stayton of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment; many a busybody, many a crank. Sebastian Spering Kresge, 5-and-10-cent man, was there, presumably to see that the Anti-Saloon League was mak-ing good use of some of the $500,000 he gave it last winter (TIME...
...Leopold Zimmermann is a man who pays back every cent. He re-opened the firm of Zimmermann & Forshay and has already used the profits to pay $100,000 of the remaining $2,000,000. He keeps a list of the old creditors on his desk, smiles sternly as he checks off names. He lives with his wife in a two-room hotel suite costing $1,400 a year, rides to work at 8 a. m. on the subway. He has no children, no partners. He swears he will tear up that list on his desk before he dies. That...
...Thoracoplasty, an operation which consists in cutting away part of the ribs, allowing the diseased lung to collapse and be at rest, giving it a chance to heal, and stopping the spread of the disease, has been employed in 148 cases during the last seven years. Forty one per cent were cured, 33% improved...
...killed his third tabloid, Baltimore American, by merging it with his full-sized Baltimore News. This was part of a complicated compromise with his Baltimore rivals, the Sun-papers, by which he allowed the Evening Sun to get Associated Press rights without paying him one cent. Hearst had not been known before as a man of compromises...