Word: closed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seven tankers under construction were sold for $16,800,000. Of this sum, $3,840,000 was in cash, the balance in first mortgage notes. Then the notes, face value $13,493,000, were sold for $2.940,000 to a company close to the purchaser of the tankers...
...Philip K. he named a gum, "P. K's.," to share the fame of other Wrigley products, "Spearmint," "Doublemint," "Juicy Fruit." He still keeps in close touch with his business and when in Chicago eats lunch in the restaurant on the main floor of the white Wrigley Building which towers like a huge birthday cake beside an oily curve of the Chicago river. Snobbish Chicagoans who see him eating there are impressed with what they call the democracy of this great millionaire who was once a soap crutcher. In modern times soap is crutched or mixed by a machine...
...system could not be formulated until two years ago. The program involves the construction of roads, railways, underground telegraph systems, and the stocking of frontier posts with engineering and artillery equipment. "Not only are old forts being brought up to date, but new works are to be constructed as close as possible to the frontier . . . especially in the newly recovered territory. The most important features of the plan will be executed within 18 months. "I wish to take this opportunity to reassure Deputy Serat concerning researches and experiments which the government is making with respect to chemical and other advanced...
...Then the procession formed to march the 350 yards from the old temple to the new. First came more torch bearers in archaic costumes, then warriors with bows, spears, shields, others with gifts of jewels and robes for the Sun Goddess. Then came the Sacred Mirror herself, her tabernacle close curtained, borne on the shoulders of white-robed priests. Humbly at the tail of the procession, blinking in the acrid smoke of the pine torches, walked the Prime Minister of Japan and his Ministers...
...have been to Chicago and I have talked to all the men I could meet. Today's game will be close; it will go into extra innings; the auspices all point that way. I have found trouble in reading the omens accurately; it is always so with close games, and we are all liable to be wrong. The probable score will be 6 to 5 in favor of the Cubs. It seems to be so written...