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Word: intrest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1929-1929
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...Manhattan, officers of mighty Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, whose common stock sells at about $6 a share, smiled over a letter and $4 received from a girl worker in a southern tobacco field. Wrote she: "Will you please sell me as little an intrest or shear in your oil wells as $4 to start with and then take what it makes for me and add to the $4 until it amounts to a fifty dollar share for me. . . . Write me once in a while about it so I would know when I would start drawing money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Lion | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

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