Word: liquid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clean clear water has replaced the coffee-colored liquid that formerly filled the Big Tree swimming pool. The more regular but less particular patrons of the pool find discomfort in this new cleanliness, because on account of it their former seclusion has been intruded upon by hosts of clean water lovers. So many have found pleasure in the new luxury that the hours have been lengthened and beginning Monday the Big Tree pool will be open from 10.30 o'clock until 6 o'clock in the afternoon. At present the pool opens at 1.30 o'clock every afternoon. The water...
...When the coal and oil fields are exhausted, the final substitute will be neither water power nor radium energy, but wind and sunlight. Surplus power will be generated by the formation and storage of liquid oxygen and hydrogen. The latter is, weight for weight, the most efficient known method of storing energy. It will be universally cheap, decentralizing industry, and producing no dirt...
...increase the liquid value of his holdings, Stinnes, in conjunction with the other industrials, compelled the Reichsbank to abandon its attempt to stabilize the mark by "official" quotations. The dollar started its climb from the official 283,000 marks "to a probable 1,000,000 by the end of the month." This process will enable Stinnes to pay practically nothing for his recently acquired properties and thus releases his resources for his next step. His income is not affected by this depreciation, for he regulates prices strictly on the basis of dollar exchange values, putting the capital thus obtained into...
...duck incident herein outlined may seem farfetched, such is not the case. During the current month a Western press agent, exploiting a cinema of whaling days, planted a full-sized cardboard whale on the top of Pike's Peak, crawled inside it with a hundred siphons, projected the liquid in a towering stream through the creature's nose. The mystified populace stampeded from the plains to view the curiosity. The papers carried columns. My, how the money rolled in! Naturally, the papers are wary; so suspicious, in fact, that only an occasional "planted" story is successful. Necessarily...
...gross of $478,000,000 reported in 1921. Net income, however, was larger than in 1921, being $7,500,000 in the latter year and almost $13,000,000 in 1922. Total assets of the company aggregate $1,123,000,000, consisting of $441,000,000 fixed assets, and liquid assets of $681,000,000 (including Government securities and investments in affiliated companies). Current assets were $457,000,000, as against current liabilities...