Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least notable item in this theorv is the mention of Wu Pei-fu, for IHt.U or nothing has been heard of him in mf»"<-moons. Yet there was a time when mar-expected that he would succeed wh<"- Yuan-Shi Kai failed-unify China h. military force and constitutional principles...
Next morning startled U. S. financiers scanned an item in their newspapers and speculated. Quite without warning to the public, J. P. Morgan and his London partner, Vivian Smith, had sailed for England, and Thomas W. Lament had sent them...
...statement for the calendar year of 1924 showed some rather impressive changes over that for the year previous. Total assets at the close of last year amounted to $644,624,468, compared with $568,101,639 a year earlier. Most of this advance is contained in the item "real estate, equipment, etc.," which increased between the two statements from $180,789,490 to $227,120,617. The "cash" item was also up from $251,173,583 to $265,723,525, but as goodwill, trademarks, receivables, etc., are lumped under this head, no one but Mr. Ford and his confidants exactly...
...Employes' investments" are up from $20,357,783 to $23,459,389. "Accrued expenses and taxes" have declined from $37,253,092 to $28,122,715. "Amortization of patents" was $183,028 in 1923 and $185,138 last year. Meanwhile "surplus"-the freak item of the whole statement-has increased from $442,041,081 to the colossal sum of $542,476,496-a jump of over $100,000,000 in a single year...
...with efficiency? Was it this terror, also, that bred in him such a pity for men that his instant reaction to an outrageous crime was sorrow for the criminals? Various comments to some such effect were; made by his friends, but strangest of all was one supplied by an item printed in his paper just before his body exchanged its pleasant room on Lake Shore Drive for the suburban field where it will rest forever?an item that revealed something of the terrifying diversity, the proximities, the contrasts, of the human spectacle which had been so long and so intimately...