Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Golden Harvest?" Alarmist reports from the Empire's trade frontiers undoubtedly tended to weaken the employers front in Lancashire. The potent Rothermere press envisioned Germany and Japan as "likely to acquire, perhaps permanently" a huge volume of business sure to be lost by Britain in the event of a long strike. "The textile mills of Northern France are working at top speed." warned Viscount Rothermere's Daily Mail, "and they will reap a golden harvest of orders that ordinarily would go to Lancashire. . . Even Poland is reckoning on big profits...
...income from properties averages about 30% of the upkeep. The 60% remainder is about evenly distributed between taxes and interest. About 10% of the whole income goes to various forms of insurance. Inevitably in about 3 years the owner has lost his equity. The reversion of real estate to the banks has made them fail and the politician senses his downfall. Thirty percent of our property is already in the hands of the State. The Mediterranean fly was an excuse to further pauperize the henchmen of the favored politician. We, unless soon relieved of their means of support, shall have...
...Chicago lawyer. In his ears was the blare of the Marine band; before him, a large U-shaped table covered with green cloth; about him, diplomats in formal attire', trim state department ushers, military and naval aides, personages of great official importance. As a civilian he felt a little lost until he caught sight of his good friend Senator Borah sitting up near the head of the U-table. And there, too, were Calvin Coolidge, Frank Billings Kellogg. The Chicago lawyer watched President Hoover, looking hot in a cutaway, shake hands with other people coming through the door from...
William Wallace Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania R. R., lost six blooded horses, a calf, farm machinery, half of his crop of hay and wheat, when lightning and fire smote the barn of his estate near Philadelphia...
Maurice Rostand, French author, lost a suit for plagiarism against the producers of a film The Little Match Seller which he claimed was a copy of a play he and his mother had made out of the late Hans Andersen's The Little Girl and the Matches. Besides refusing his claim, the court ordered him to pay $4,000 damages to the film producers, $600 damages to the theatre which withdrew the film when he filed his suit...