Word: considerable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stockholders of two large soap companies were summoned, last week, to consider a merger. Officers of Colgate and Co. and of the Palmolive-Peet Co. had agreed on terms. As the most pessimistic of stockholders could see nothing but manufacturing and distributing economies in the consolidation, the birth of Colgate...
Getting the troops out of the trenches was statesmanship's task in the last decade. Getting the U. S. out of businesses into which the War forced it has been a task which President Coolidge has set himself. Congress changed the latter, last spring, to facilitate getting the U...
But with the French Revolutionists' declaration of the Rights of Man, the black slaves of Haiti, in all consistency, revolted against their masters-rich Creoles, and supercilious whites. A slave born of slave parents, Pierre-Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture, First of the Blacks, established in 1801 an independent...
Chairman T. V. O'Connor of the U. S. Shipping Board said: "The amount missing is negligible. I consider the story another bit of British propaganda against American shipping. The figure of $500,000 was set by British newspaper men who were absolutely in no position to state the...
A GIRL ADORING - Viola Meynell - Dutton ($2.50). Viola Meynell borrows the delicate pastels of spring flowers to enhance the loveliness of Claire, a young girl adoring. For all her wax-figure delicacy Claire breathes, gently, and harbors surprisingly virile passions. She does not like, she adores, Laura, the sister-in...