Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith's company is also a mutual company and therefore, by the Coolidge dictum, the Brown Derby is now performing a public service equal to Mr. Coolidge's -even a larger public service because Metropolitan Life is far larger than New York Life. A mutual company is owned by its policy holders, who share in its profits, whereas non-mutual companies are owned by stockholders who alone receive dividends. Sharp rivalry exists between Mr. Coolidge's company and Mr. Smith's company. A comparison: Mr. Smith's Company Assets-$2,695,475,965 1928 Income...
...earned $4,710,400 ($4.25 per share). Under comparatively new management, E. T. McCleary, onetime vice president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., succeeding T. J. Bray to the presidency in April 1928. Acquired Steel & Tubes Co. Inc., maker of electrically welded tubing, in September 1928. Republic now rates among larger independents...
...appeal was proved by more than 40 concert contracts. From the spring of 1926 to February 1928, she netted $334,000 on tour. Today she can still get her fee of $3,500 per appearance in the less sophisticated cities. Perhaps she is piqued at the defection of the larger musical centres...
...Perhaps the finest, largest gingko in the U. S. is on the grounds of Henry Douglas Pierce, No. 1415 North Meridian St., Indianapolis. The Pierce gingko is more than 8 ft. around. Planted when no larger than a walking stick, it grew amazingly, its roots bathed in soapy drainage from the Pierce laundry. The gingko, bright yellow in autumn, has a curious habit of shed-cling each and every one of its leaves in a single night...
...prejudiced against the present regime in Russia, nevertheless any summary of the eleven years of experimentation which has caused so much comment should do a great deal to clarify a highly involved and perplexing innovation. For after all, whether one sympathizes, with or violently opposes Bolshevism, and in a larger sense Communism, the field is not one that can be ignored by anyone interested in social experimentation...