Word: kept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pope had spoken to Mussolini, that he had spoken to England, and that an English potentate had "suggested" that the Corsair cancel its pilgrimage. The Pope, said rumormongers, did not want too great a rapprochement between Anglican and Orthodox Churches, preferring to see Jerusalem's present religious balance kept intact...
...dwindled from $654,851,061 at the end of 1927 to a mere $582,629,563 at the end of 1928, thus indicating a year's loss of $72,221,498-not counting, of course, what Ford profits might have been if Model T could have been kept going. There was also an indicated loss of some $42,000,000 in 1927. Automobile production figures for the first quarter of 1929 (TIME, April 15) show that the Ford has regained its position as greatest unit producer, some 180,000 March Fords comparing with some 140,000 March Chevrolets...
...traditional University architects, Coolidge, Abbott, Shepley, and Bullfinch, the plans for the two new Houses will not be completed until summer. This extra time will undoubtedly make such an alteration in the plans for the Houses possible if it is found that the squash courts can not be kept in the new gymnasium. This change would even have many obvious advantages, which would be especially great if the courts were sufficiently numerous to accommodate a large percentage of the residents of these Houses...
...into the mire of ridicule. With Mrs. Sanger's mouth plastered shut and the eminent Clarence Darrow calling upon the wise to look upon life "as a huge joke," the assembled intelligentsia amused themselves with the obscenity of Mother Goose. Unfortunately the Grand Vizir of Maryland Free State was kept away by a sinus infection. Accordingly he lost a rare addition to his distinguished Americana anthology...
General Motors. In addition to its Chevrolet output, General Motors (which in 1928 produced about 39% of all U. S. cars) also kept its other companies running at record-breaking figures. Cadillac and La Salle March production totaled 4,009; the Olds Motor Works turned out 13,000 Oldsmobiles (44% increase over March, 1928); Buick reached a March figure of 15,206.* Production has also been started on a new General Motors car -the Viking. Made at the Oldsmobile Lansing plant, the Viking is an 8-cylinder car with a V-type motor...