Word: goings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Steel-Cement. Building contractors who go shopping for steel usually also have to go shopping for cement. Last week United States Steel Corp. offered to exchange some $31,000,000 of its stock for Atlas Portland Cement Co. which produces 19,000,000 barrels a year. Other cement companies realized that from the combination will come potent competition, but also potent support of a higher cement tariff...
Charged in the suit was that the defendants had conspired to defraud the government by arranging the sale of the seized Bosch property for $4,500,000, some $5,000,000 less than it was allegedly worth.* Since if the suit were won the proceeds would eventually go to the German Bosch Co, the petition to discontinue it seemed to indicate that Herr Bosch's agreement with the U. S. interests had become very complete indeed...
...other day like a penitent schoolboy, 'but the second fixed me up. It was a complete success, complete' The doctors have cured everything. I am quite well again. ... I have been invited to Brazil as the guest of the Government and also to Argentina. I plan to go. After that, if the voyage is not too tiring, I should like to visit the United States...
...Milwaukee one Wellington Lytle, suicide, willed that ''my body should go to science, my soul to Andrew W. Mellon, and sympathy to my creditors...
Grandma Brown's last baby (the author's husband) was born when she was nearly 43, and her hair had turned gray. When their progeny grew up and left home. Grandma and Dan'l began to go places and do things: "in '93, like everybody else," they went to the World's Fair in Chicago. But Dan'l was getting along. He had a stroke, then another; soon he was almost helpless. Grandma Brown used to wash his feet for him. "But he would say to me, 'I hate to have you wash...