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Word: less (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less innovation is at Turin where, on the roof of the Fiat factories, an automobile race course has been built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Italian Innovations | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...baggage. Wing spread is 89 ft., load capacity 7½ tons, cruising speed 150 m. p. h., high speed 175 m. p. h. It was secretly built for P. W. Chapman of Sky Lines, Inc., to carry passengers between New York and Chicago in six hours or less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Big Plane | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...they, like Professor Henderson, taught at Yale more than 25 years. If professional salaries were to be raised, as seemed likely, it looked as though the ten-room houses would have to be maintained on something like $10,000; more than $6,000 or $8,000 but still far less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Again, Salaries | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...merge physical properties, but that their stockholders will arrange an interchange of securities. Later there will be formed an investment bank, to be known as International Manhattan Co., so that, like many another bank, the new combination will have an affiliated financing organization whose operations and earnings may be less conservative than those of the parent body. Resources of the two banks total some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Warburgs, Bakers | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...Hardly less ancient than the House of Warburg is the House of Baker, but the Bakers have not so continuously been bankers, and the Baker bank has not remained always in Baker control. This bank-the Bank of the Manhattan Co., was organized in 1799. One of its original stockholders was Stephen Baker. The Bank of the Manhattan Co. did not remain a Baker property, but did return to the Baker family 35 years ago. J. Stewart Baker, present head, succeeded his father, Stephen Baker, grandson of Stephen the Founder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Warburgs, Bakers | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

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