Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Motors managers acted against the pessimism of the Federal Reserve Bank. Why? Because their annual report for 1927, published last week, was far and , away the most encouraging document which the financial year had so far brought forth. Assets of $1,098,477,577, an increase of $77,583,470 over 1926 earnings of $235,104,826, the largest peacetime result ever achieved by a corporation; total business of $1,269,519,673-these figures stimulated Wall Street speculators and investors everywhere, and they bought 2,431,500 shares of General Motors stock in five and one-half days...
...ninety-sixth senator had, at the same time, received a package and a document from "The Kleagles of the Hooded Knight, Central Falls, R. I." The package looked very much like an encased violin, which the document said it was. But the ninety-sixth senator-Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin, of Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope-was not deceived. Speedily he notified his colleagues that he had issued no invitation of any sort. Pointing at the package, with fearful, hoarse solemnity he said: "It may be a bomb, or worse! Some of my friends warned...
...believe that the Balkan pot is about to boil over into active warfare were not surprised last week when the Chicago Herald-Examiner (Hearst) printed, exclusively, excerpts from "secret instructions sent from Kemals [Mustapha Kemal Pasha, dictator of Turkey] foreign office to the Turkish minister at Belgrade." This document was "intercepted by a secret agent of one of the Balkan powers." In it, Dictator Kemal outlines his country's moves in the event of a Balkan conflict, as follows...
...flag was raised over the highest peak of the Rocky Mountains. I have brought it to you." Then, with Jessie's aid, he wrote a report of his trip which exploded the myth that the "Great American Desert" lay between Missouri and the Rockies. The public read the document avidly; the movement westward was stimulated...
...merely definitive, but suggestive in form. Foremost within it should be a statement of what further advance in specific fields of study the secondary school would be prepared to exchange for a cut in the over-wide requirements of college entrance under the credit system. In such a document education in general, as well as college committees on admission, would possess a thumb-rule for measuring the chasm's span...