Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Architects. A good-sized yacht can be designed and built in five months. It takes a longer period when the yacht is U. S. designed and German built. The cost of building a yacht in Germany is 50% to 33% less than in the U. S., but there is a 30% tax on foreign-built yachts. U. S. architects are giving an increasing amount of business to U. S. shipyards because they have demonstrated their ability to build yachts more luxurious and equally as sturdy as German-built craft...
...average profit of about $75 a share. Actually, much paper profit was turned into cash on the market's only day of weakness (Wednesday). The Wall Street Journal reported that the Brothers Fisher sold their 300,000-share holdings of Radio. Their investment cannot have netted them less than $30,000,000, may have made...
...from 1863, the Pennsy acquired one of the freak obligations of railroad finance. For on May 1, 1863, the Elmira & Williamsport R. R. issued $569,500 coupon bonds, in denominations of $500, not callable before date of maturity. That date was fixed at Oct. 1, 2862, just seven months less than 1,000 years distant. When the bonds mature, the E. & M. or owning roads will have paid interest charges of some...
...years getting home from Troy. Therefore, Homer proves him a hero of the sort that is resourceful when shipwrecked, patient when detained. But Erskine proves him a liar of the sort that is shrewd enough in pursuit of romantic adventures, and shrewder yet in making them appear less romantic than brave. Not shrewd enough however to deceive Penelope with his tale of trying for ten years to get home. "Trying, my dear man! Who kept you back?"-"Fate."-"What was her other name...
Erskine's version, mildly amusing, suffers in that it cannot share the novelty of his Helen of Troy. Homer's, if less convincing, is nevertheless rather more entertaining...