Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glad of that, glad the whole War was long over and done with, when he last week took charge of a U. S. flying field named for one of the greatest U. S. aces, Major Edward Vernon ("Eddie") Rickenbacker...
...greatest difference between Investment News and the more conservative financial papers is in the Macfadden publication's willingness to give specific tips on specified stocks. Thus in one day's issue, there was definite bull advice on International Business Machines (headed for the 200 mark), on General Electric (may split 4 for 1), Baltimore & Ohio (earnings may be $15 a share this year), and on many another stock. There was also definite bear counsel on Public Service of New Jersey (priced too high), American Power & Light (why buy stocks at their high?), Wright Aero (headed for lower levels...
...could best be based, not on an attempt to go back to pre-War wages or to maintain inflation prices, but upon increasing consumption through a policy of "low costs and high wages." Production and Consumption. Since 1922 primary production has increased about 17%, manufacturing and transportation about 28%. Greatest increase has come in per capita production, which increased 35% between 1922 and 1925. Consumption, however, has had little difficulty in keeping pace with production...
...Girard alumni ambled, as they usually do, placidly and gregariously about the halls of their undergraduate years. Several seemed perturbed, some even seemed alarmed last week. What disturbed them was a rumor that their college endowment-77 millions, or eight millions less than Harvard's (greatest U. S. endowment)-might fall into political hands and be spirited away...
...shadow fell over Bayreuth last week. From Berlin came news that she who had learned the music-drama gospel from the lips of the master, she who had created Isolde in America, she who had been called the greatest of Wagnerian singers, was gone. Lilli Lehmann was dead...