Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four years Mr. Gilbert, a quiet, courteous, red-haired graduate of Rutgers, has been making the Dawes Plan work. Unquestionably his present report, with its searching analysis of Germany's capacity to continue her huge Reparations payments, will form the chief basis of fad upon which Tycoon Young and the Committee of Experts will base their decisions in revising the Dawes Plan...
...Paris, the statement of M. Poincaré was irascibly repeated by his Chef de Cabinet. Thereupon a circular order was sent out by leading U. S. news services to all correspondents: "Keep on lookout for Young." As though he had been Charlie Ross, the wilfully elusive Chief Executive of two huge corporations was sought for everywhere that...
...that ever since France has been repenting his bargain. Today one of the chief perplexities of Prime Minister Raymond Poincare is how he is ever going to pay the $400,000,000 bill signed for M. Klotz, which falls due in September, 1929. The only alternative to paying this huge sum in cash is for France to ratify the Mellon-Berenger debt funding agreement, in which all the debts of France to the U. S. are merged and spread over 62 years. Thus far a stubborn French Parliament has refused to ratify-and the standing $400,000,000 bill...
...have dragged on two years and more, realizing an ambition of many years. He took control of the distinguished old Daily Eagle, which during all the 87 years of its existence had been under the continuous ownership of a family group. _ Two upstate publishers thus became rivals in the huge, various New York City newspaper field. For only last August, another chain-paper man, Paul Block, bought the Brooklyn Standard-Union. Block began his newspaper career in Elmira, N. Y., and was publishing papers in Newark, Toledo, Duluth and Pittsburgh at the time he purchased the Standard-Union...
...General Motors uses the financial wizards of the Raskob-du Pont type; Chrysler relies chiefly on Walter P. Chrysler. General Motors is close to J. P. Morgan & Co.; Chrysler is the good friend of the Brady family and, more recently, of Dillon, Read & Co. General Motors has issued the huge total of 43,500,000 shares of common stock,† Chrysler only 4,423,484. General Motors sold 1,576,708 cars from January to October; Chrysler's 1928 output was about 500,000, will be 700,000 in 1929. General Motors earned $289,146,201 in the year...