Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...head of Morris Motors, bears the relation to British motor manufacture of Henry Ford to the U. S., last week found himself obliged to dispose of $4,750,000. Last year the company earned $6,500,000. After taxes and preferred dividends the $4,750,000 remained for the common stockholders. Since Mr. Morris is the company's sole common stockholder, he might have assigned himself all the sum. Instead, he ordered it applied to company surplus...
Over the Ohio River at Madison, Ind., there is use for a bridge; over the Missouri at Hermann, Mo. and Courtney, Mo. are similar uses; and at all three places public authorities, too poor to build bridges at common expense, recently authorized private individuals to build toll bridges...
...industrial concern received U. S. reporters. Both men had the same announcement to deliver-the creation of the Finance Company of Great Britain & America Ltd. with ?2,040,000 (about $10,000,000) capital. Chase Securities and Imperial Chemical Industries are to own and sell equal amounts of the common stock...
...much better costumed and much less attended. It is admitted that a man might be as dull as the Man Who Knew Coolidge, and still run a good Marathon. But ad these indictments carefully weighed still present no valid reason why a person should not stroll across Boston Common at the first appearance of the tulips and the Swan-boats; wander through the vaunted architecture of Copley Square; mingle with a good natured, entertaining holiday crowd against a rope and before a policeman; gaze with awe at series of exhausted men who have run twenty-six miles for glory...
...works like a Ford factory, and although the majority of previous visitors have agreed that the American college is guilty of complicity in this great stifling plot, Mr. Benn denies that the training at Harvard either hammers out a conventional type or ignores the necessities of existence in a common sense world...