Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interest in connection with the present stock market decline is a book in the Baker Library of the Business School which deals with the first big stock inflation in history. It is called "He Groote, Tafereel der Dwaasheid" (The Great Picture of Foolishness) and is a collection of Dutch cartoons and satires on the speculative craze that resulted in John Law's Mississippi Company on the Continent and the South Sea Bubble in England. The book was stated on the title page to be "Printed as a Warning for Posterity, in the fatal year, of many Follies Among the Wise...
...Cornelius Jr. is scarcely famed in Paris-having chosen California as his place to toil and go bankrupt publishing tabloid news organs. Therefore announcements that General Cornelius Vanderbilt had made available $2,257,000 to pay the California tabloid creditors (TIME, Dec. 31), were of relatively slight interest to such typical Paris tycoons as M. Henri Letellier, publisher of the world's third largest newspaper, Le Journal. It was M. Letellier who employed, as his confidential and executive secretary until recently, the cherubic Erskine Gwynne. But tout Paris took keen interest, last week, at reports that Nephew Gwynne...
Gannett, too, spent some of his early years in newspaper work in Elmira. In 1906 he bought a half-interest in the Elmira Gazette, combining it with the Star. He fought shy of the larger cities for years as he expanded his holdings, buying up papers two at a time, consolidating them on firm financial bases. He went to Ithaca, to Rochester, to Utica; to Plainfield, N. J.; and back to New York with purchases in Newburgh, Olean and Ogdensburg...
Estimated average value of a 1928 car was wholesale $650, retail $876; of a 1928 truck wholesale $709, retail $955. The difference between wholesale and retail prices paid for freight, storage, interest, dealer's profit...
...will be on sale or obtainable through orders. So far, this total of contributions has not quite been reached, but confidence was expressed on the part of the executives that it would be soon. Many New York and Boston art patrons have supported the work generously while a general interest in the movement is evident in art circles...