Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Furthermore, the Standard Oil Co. of California is by far the largest potential producer and owns the greatest known oil reserve. Most of these lands are owned in fee (no.royalties...
...Steel Corp.'s claims, and claims similar, for taxes dating back to 1917, were not made until 1923 or later because the claimants had not known there was any chance of recovery. The claims have not yet been paid because of the intricacy of opposing contentions, the delays of tax appeal. Democrat Garner wanted to know why Mr. Mellon could not have delayed such refunds a little longer...
...Napoleon he was loved because he inspired his men to march and fight to their uttermost, exultant limit, while always feeding and bedding them as well as could 'by any possibility be done. That he defied the Tsar, the politicians and Rasputin separately, collectively and repeatedly is well known. On one celebrated occasion the Black Monk had persuaded the Tsar to order that he, Rasputin, should inspect the Crank Duke Nicholas' lines, and the "Debauchee" wired that he was coming. He changed his plans upon receiving a one-sentence telegram from the Grand Duke Nicholas...
...company almost immediately created and popularized Uneeda Biscuit, which, though popularly best known as one of the early examples of selling a brand name through advertising, was most important as part of a general movement toward marketing crackers and biscuits in packages instead of in bulk. The name originally proposed for Uneeda Biscuit was Uneeda Cracker; the change being made because "biscuits" seemed to rank "crackers" in popular estimation. National Biscuit is the largest biscuit manufacturer in the world, has never reported a deficit, had a net income of $13,038,000, first nine months of 1928. Its president...
Hahn, Department Stores, Inc., last week announced the merger of 22 department stores, forming a unit capitalized at $60,000,000 and with aggregate 1927 sales of more than $100,000,000. The 22 stores -the best known of which is Boston's Jordan Marsh-will form the nucleus of what Lew Hahn hopes to make the largest chain-store organization in the world. President Hahn of the new combination, forsees a billion dollar department chain with annual turnover exceeding F.W. Woolworth, United Cigar, or Atlantic & Pacific. Various units will continue to operate under present managements, President George...