Word: existed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least six good reasons exist for private capital to build toll bridges: 1) motor travelers are willing to pay tolls to shorten their journeys; 2) local authorities derive a certain, if trifling, indirect income; 3) government authorities are often too lethargic to construct needed bridges; 4) engineering friends of private capitalists, rather than the engineering friends of officeholders get the construction jobs and profits; 5) sale of bridge bonds and stocks provides work and profits for banking houses; 6) bridge bonds and stocks are investment opportunities for people with idle money...
...plantations. Moreover U. S. rubber manufacturers, urged by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, proceeded to circumvent partially the artificially high price of new rubber by turning to the use of reclaimed rubber and other substitutes. As a result the scarcity artificially created by Great Britain has progressively ceased to exist and the price of rubber has accordingly and progressively fallen...
...general attitude of the students here towards studies is perhaps a little difficult to understand. At first one would think Harvard students are a pretty lazy bunch. Eight o'clock classes practically don't exist. A nine o'clock is an atrocity, a ten o'clock only tolerable, while the most popular hours are eleven and twelve o'clock lectures...
...Banks. The interrelation of Mr. Giannini's fiscal organizations seems inexplicable. It is not. As yet there exist only two great organizations, with their activities mainly in California and in New York. Later he hopes to have a web of banks in each of the twelve Federal Reserve bank districts...
...Esquimo Pie Corp. (bars of chocolate-covered ice-cream) challenged Honeymoon Pie Corp. (bars of chocolate-covered ice-cream) on its right to exist. Esquimo sued for damages, alleging that Honeymoon had infringed on its 1921 patent. In Brooklyn, N. Y., last week, Federal Judge Marcus B. Campbell announced that unpatented Honeymoon pies could continue to compete with patented Esquimo pies. Explained Judge Campbell: Ice cream and candy had been coated with chocolate long before 1921 (for example, chocolate creams). In 1907, one Val Miller had written a book in which he told how to make "cannonballs," a confection differing...