Word: factly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many cases he is not only a director in name but also in active fact. Thus, of Continental Can he is chairman of the executive committee, besides being its most famed student of economics. To add the problems of bottles to the problems of cans will be, for him, no extraordinary feat...
...think," concluded the ruling, "that the investor in the petitioner's stock has no assurance that the company will be able to increase its rate of dividends in the near future, or, in fact, will be able to maintain the increased rate of dividends recently voted. Thus in our judgment, the approval of the company's proposal at this time, would have little, if any, effect in causing a wider distribution of its stock among investors. Such as would occur would, in our opinion, be to the disadvantage of the investor...
Sentimental editors wrote retorts in which they pretended that reporting is such a fine art they would just as soon have pursued it all their lives. They derided the fact that of Columbia's 26 graduate journalists last year, six at once became press agents...
What is really important is the fact that Messrs. Lardner and Kaufman show themselves to be irreverent Boswells of Tin Pan Alley. They know, for instance, all about its soiled, impertinent goddesses. One of these creatures, played with frightening rancor by Jean Dixon, scourges her husband with wisecracks because his "Paprika, You're the Spice of My Life" is the only song hit he has written in three years. "That's the place for you," she says, upon learning that the Hall of Fame is devoted to "Busts." When he sings her his new "Montana Moon" she stares...
...Washington. The accountants discovered that some of the operators were making money on their mail business. Most were not. The money-makers argued that their present profits were just beginning to wipe out the losses which they had endured in previous years. A strong debating point was the fact that the Government needs a large and efficient air service to provide trained men and ready material in case of war. For that future possibility it is paying the mail carriers a virtual subsidy as are foreign governments. In Europe the subsidies average $1 a mile flown, with little return...