Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The 1925 tobacco business was enormous and profitable. Twelve firms-R. J. Reynolds, American Tobacco, Liggett & Myers, P. Lorillard, American Cigar, General Cigar, Consolidated Cigar, U. S. Tobacco (snuff), G. W. Helme (snuff), American Snuff, United Cigar Stores (retailers) and Schulte Retail stores-aggregated net incomes of $96,154,158...
Even the problem of getting the workers back to their former jobs involves both time and a high degree of executive ability. Credit is due to Premier Baldwin who, against the opposition of his own party, brought pressure to bear on employers to take back the strikers on the old...
It seems to me that in the wording of the questionnaire for the prohibition vote to be taken Monday the drys are at a distinct disadvantage. The proposals of the wets are given the suggestive publicity of specific questions. The proposals of the drys, such as the substitution of imprisonment...
The New York Daily Mirror, with characteristic emphasis, spoke for the gum-chewers. At the top of its editorial page two pictures were printed, one of Sinclair Lewis with a monocle in his eye, and one (on the left) of a large hairy baboon with enormous ears, a wise, sad...
The University of Texas is at present enjoying, from one impersonal benefactor alone, an income of about a million and a half dollars a year. It is not a case of some preposterously wealthy and generous retired capitalist. It is not revenue from an enormous endowment fund. The income is...