Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average churchgoer. Authority for the fact that 5? is the average contribution, is the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, which published figures last week. The most generous State: New Jersey, 12.2? per churchgoer per Sunday. Virginia, the Carolinas, Washington and eleven other States averaged less than...
...Less important than Babbitt or Arrowsmith, kinder and more accurate than Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth is as shrewd a piece of reporting as any of the earlier volumes. No scoop, it has a pale prelude in Tarkington's Plutocrat, but Dodsworth is the exhaustive definitive edition...
...uncompleted British airship R-100 was recently pulled out of her hangar at Howden, Yorkshire, was revealed last week. Rats, less cunning than those which infest but do not destroy surface ships, had invaded the hangar and threatened to eat the R-100's fabric. While the airship was safely out of doors, poison killed scores and scores of the rats...
...banks had withdrawn 25 million dollars from the market, a mere bagatelle, less than one-half of 1% of the five and three-quarter billion dollars in the market. The Federal Reserve Board had adjourned without speaking. The drop had been severe, but not quite so severe as the drop on December 6 and February 7. It would soon be time, the market said, for the shorts to take their profit, for bargain hunters to appear...
Fields. Speculative is stock in airplane companies; somewhat less speculative is stock in flying fields, since though companies may come and go, the flying field remains always necessary. So last week reasoned many an air-minded U.S. investor, offered stock in Roosevelt Field, Inc., at $18 a share. The new corporation plans to purchase in fee Roosevelt Field, L.I. (from which Col. Lindbergh made his Paris flight) and adjacent Curtiss Field, to supply hangars for planes and parking space and a restaurant for the general public...