Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington, U. S. Representative Andrew L. Somers of New York received the following letter from two of his Brooklyn constituents: "I would like to know if you could pass a bill providing for half pennys. The reason is that around our way they sell cakes 2 for five cents, (5?), one costs three cents. So if we could have half pennys we would only have to pay 2 and ½ cents. Thanking you in advance. Answer please. MORRIS RAPPAPORT. MILTON WINSTON...
...Detroit Stock Exchange one day last week Bank of Detroit opened 120 points higher than it had closed the night before. Union-Commerce Corp. varied 39 points during the day's trading. Other banks' stocks danced, jumped, oscillated. Half an hour after the market closed, the reason for these gyrations became evident. Officials of Guardian Detroit Group and Union-Commerce Corp.?two of Detroit's biggest banks ? announced their merger. Furthermore, the merged bank planned soon to acquire Bank of Detroit and eight smaller institutions in and around the city. With capital assets of $75,000,000, deposits...
...that he, aged 36, is a dynamo for work. The Baptist Temple project includes successfully operating a 14-story office building and a commercial restaurant, organizing a community service plan, adding 1,300 new church members. The Sunday congregations, whooped up by advertising, average 3,500, fill the auditorium half an hour before the service. The annual budget of the Temple amounts to $120,000. While Dr. Wunder made no mention of his new salary, congregation members were confident it would be considerably larger than what he has received as a minister...
...lower half of the draw was Francis T. Hunter against the field. This contained 37-year-old Richard Norris Williams II, champion in 1914 and 1916 who in the round before the quarter-finals played what tennis players considered the most brilliant tennis of the tournament in beating young Arnold Jones. The finals, as had been expected, were played by Tilden and Hunter...
...last week was ready to test-fly the British dirigible R-100, ordered by the British government. (The British Air Ministry itself is building the Commonwealth's other dirigible, R-101.) When the Government accepts the R-100 it will immediately resell her to Airship Guarantee Co. at half the contract price on condition that she will be used on experimental long-distance passenger flights within the Empire. (The R-101 is destined for trans-Atlantic service...