Word: co
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having measured the height of the "crime wave," and collected figures on the business of murder for 1927, Dr. Frederick Ludwig Hoffman, consulting statistician for the Prudential Insurance Co. of America, last fortnight indicted many a middle-sized U. S. city. The highest homicide rates (per 100,000 inhabitants) were found...
...Amalgamation of British plantations to meet the world competition which must now be squarely faced; 2) Continued low prices of crude rubber; 3) Development of the system of co-operative buying among U. S. consumers which has proved effective in battering down rubber prices...
...question of whether co-operative buying may become an evil partaking of the nature of a "trust" is now a live issue before the U. S. House of Representatives. Representative Walter H. Newton of Minnesota recently introduced a bill to authorize and encourage pooled buying of raw materials abroad, but the House voted down the bill last week...
...Last week were reported the Eastman Kodak Co.'s 1927 profits-$20,142,161. President of the company is William G. Stuber, whom Governor Flem D. Sampson of Kentucky has just made a colonel on his official staff. Will Rogers, critic of U. S. mores, is a colonel on the same staff...
...opposite face of the earth, while these men gained their ways, George Eastman, head of the Eastman Kodak Co., was pursuing his second leisurely hunt* with camera and gun through the high lands of Uganda and southern Sudan. The scientific importance of his trip lay chiefly in the cinema films which, with the aid of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson,† he took of African mammals at their private affairs. Of lesser importance were the rare white rhinoceros and the more common water buck which he killed so that he might give them to the Natural History Museum at Rochester...