Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...original Ford incorporator, acquired his stock (2,180 shares) for some $40,000, prior to 1908, and sold it for some 30 millions in 1919. When Henry and Edsel Ford sought to buy him out in 1919, the Internal Revenue Bureau calculated that $9,489.34 per share was a fair price. Senator Couzens ultimately obtained $13,444 per share. He paid the U. S. a profits tax on the difference between the Revenue Bureau's fair price estimate and the price he received. That was in 1919 and the business seemed finished...
...common fund. At the end of the pig-selling period, portions of this fund shall be advanced to any of the ten pig men who have had to sell their pigs, at home or in some other village, for less than what all agree upon that year's "fair price" for pigs. The pig men have thus equalized their prosperity...
Only one college, so far as we know, has gone the whole way and abolished even examinations and degrees, and that one, Pocono, is too small and casual to afford a fair test of this most radical of all academic ideas. Certain it is, however, that a means is going to be found to make the atmosphere of education electric and just turn the student loose in it. The trouble with examinations and monitors and lectures and conferences is that too often they serve as lightining-arresters, diverting the current of knowledge away from the student instead of into...
...gets even with them and marches out of their office with a big black bag containing $3,000,000. Then dat ole debbil Burning Daylight says to his sweetheart (Mrs. Milton Sills, the onetime Doris Kenyon): "Let's go back to Alaska." And, three guesses and no fair peeking, who wrote the original story...
...mouthful of Sloan's Liniment. The rest of the piece is pretty weak. It is billed as "a comedy with music" which is exactly what it is. The comedy is good; the rest is mediocre. The music is fair, the sets likewise, and the rest of the cast passable. The chorus, while executing a few good dances, is such as would most probably offend even the taste in pulchritude of the fastidious patrons of the Howard Athenaeum...