Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, the directors of Middle West Utilities Co., great Insull holding company, voted a 10-to-1 splitup of its stock which, selling at $158 late in June, touched $370 per share last week. Stockholders were given 67 million dollars worth of "rights...
...records much of the power and glory of the British Empire. It is the percentage of world shipbuilding that is being carried on in British and Irish shipyards, thus establishes Great Britain as builder of slightly more than one-half the world's total ship tonnage. At the close of June there were 2,838,225 tons of ships being built throughout the world. Of this tonnage, British and Irish yards were contributing 1,454,906; all other countries...
David Burbank, 25, nephew of the late great Luther Burbank, was in an automobile accident near East Gloucester, Me., pronounced dead, taken to an undertaker. En route signs of life were noticed. He was rushed to hospital, given a chance for recovery...
Married. Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, lately divorced (TIME, July 15); to Carlotta Monterey, actress (The Hairy Ape), divorced wife of Illustrator Ralph Barton (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes); in Paris. In a pre-nuptial contract, world-wandering Playwright O'Neill agreed to lease for 13 years the great Chateau de Plessis at St. Antoine Du Rocher, 25 miles from Tours, with a 600-acre game preserve. Miss Monterey also required installation of a roof garden, gymnasium, swimming pool...
...Midwest Four moved up into the finals without great difficulty, players Knox and Balding scoring fast if not freely against the defenses of an Army team and a team from Ramson which included Player Balding's brother Gerald and Raymond Guest, brother of Internationalist Winston Guest...