Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tons of dogs were fed four tons of Spratt's dog food, a sop of wheat, meat, bone dust, and water. Foley for his order, Spratt's for their larder, between them pocketed a large slice of the 875.000 laid out by the Club. Other major expenses: $20,000 each for rent of the Garden and for prizes...
...capacity, but Cleveland's statistical Colonel Leonard P. Ayres declared: "These developments terminate what was a kind of deadlock in business. From now on we are going to have a flexible instead of an inflexible price scale and apparently we shall also escape major labor difficulties. Both will be good for business...
...Corp.'s outstanding shares on December 31 thus owned 2% less costs of each of these tangible properties, could sell out at liquidating value whenever he desired. If such a stockholder can find no buyer on the open market, Commodity Corp. is committed to buying back his shares. Major investing difference from a securities investment trust is that commodities do not pay dividends...
...with itself because it brought the suit which broke the original Guffey Coal Act in the Supreme Court. Carter Coal Co. is now out to duplicate this feat with the Guffey-Vinson Coal Act. This Act set up a seven-man national Bituminous Coal Commission in Washington, with the major purpose of creating minimum prices for soft coal. In a city where frustrated bickering is a fine art, the Bituminous Coal Commission set a new high before it finally produced its first set of minima two months ago (TIME, Dec. 27). Carter Coal at once sought an injunction against them...
...Among the major evidences of the current business recession is the reduction of steel operations from the year's high of 92.3% of capacity to (1 eighty, 2 seventy-two, 3 fifty, 4 thirty-eight, 5 nineteen) percent of capacity...