Word: marche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They are no idle boast. It is five and a half years this month since Mussolini seized personal responsibility for his country's fortunes by his dramatic 'march on Rome' in October...
Although none could doubt the sincerity of bullnecked, forthright Lord Rothermere, persons of active memory recalled that while Signor Mussolini officially founded the Fascist movement in March 1919, this "founding" was essentially a renaming of Nationalist groups which had been assembled by others in the days when Benito Mussolini was an ardent Socialist...
...last week: 1) reduced the prices of all Willys-Knight Standard Six models by $150; 2) hired every man who applied for factory work in order to reach a required production of 2,000 cars daily; 3) received reports from salesmen that they had sold 30,000 cars during March; 4) notified Willys-Overland stockholders that their net income last year had been $6,341,519, the equivalent of $2.04 on each company share...
Result of the three Graham brothers* investing some of the millions, which they made by selling out their truck manufacturing business to Dodge Bros., in what is now called the Graham-Paige Motors Corp.: 7,500 cars made this March; 2,428 cars in March 1927; about 12,350 cars and $350,000 earnings in the first three months of this year; 6,006 and $185,798 loss in the first three months of last year...
...Calcutta of clipper-ship cargoes. Last week dark-skinned, poly-tongued Manhattan Coffee Exchange brokers-Greek, Christian, Jew alike-bet furiously on West Indian weather. Could Munson Liner Southern Cross get her 50,000 bags of Rio coffee a-dock at Hoboken before the last trading hour of March? The 50,000 bags were bought and sold. If a hurricane delayed them the bags might be near but not at Hoboken, and sellers of them would be "short." Then the buyers could make them "pay through the nose," as Wall Street's cruel saying describes the desperate predicament...