Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that there are too many mines in an industry which already needs retrenchment and consideration. He said, "This is one of the evils often produced by industrialism. A possible remedy is emigration but the difficulty there is that the surplus workers do not as a rule settle on the land. They have received a highly specialized training and they are both unable and unwilling to adapt themselves to new conditions...
Wilson's choice of a Commanding General was a fine one. Wilson's war operations surpassed on both land and sea anything that the world had thus far seen, not excepting those of Germany itself. Wilson was a man of peace, hated war. He did almost too well. They had not beaten him with the preparedness issue; the country was not prepared when the Republicans had turned it over to him; so they tried to make his decisions for him. He, declining the honor, is accused of snubbing! An unkind joke...
...convention week for the town criers. Manhattan was overrun with them?the men who keep their ears to the ground ,their eyes on public whimsy, their private thoughts to themselves?for town criers may no longer air their personal prejudices; the men who flood the land morning, noon and night with news, entertainment, instruction and the merchants' persuasions to buy, buy, buy, in bundles and bales and stacks and mountains of newspapers, which every year grow more numerous, multi-paged and hefty...
...Significance. Brilliant Gilbert Frankau, the author, intended, it would seem, to write a novel on a grand scale of deep British significance. Modern English landscape, modern London streets, horse-racing, prizefighting, tea parties, labor strikes, auctions, motoring?the story ventures thrillingly up and down the land. Perhaps most thrilling of all is the politics. No mean orator himself, Mr. Frankau introduces a fascinating Jewish playwright to wax eloquently Tory. Yet, in spite of all this, the author seems to have become so absorbed by John Masterson and his unfortunate bride that as the story proceeds he forgets sociology...
...year. It is not a case of some preposterously wealthy and generous retired capitalist. It is not revenue from an enormous endowment fund. The income is the university's one-eighth royalty on the output of the Group 1 Oil Company, organized three years ago to drill on land that the university chanced to own. Last week the company's directors declared three monthly dividends of $250 a share on the 2,048 shares outstanding, which, when paid, will bring the total dividend for the year ending in July to $2,415 a share. Last year Texas soil...