Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Somewhere in its pages the Advocate states that it is entered at the post office as second class matter. At least there is something to be commended in this editorial candor
...maiden voyage she would have carried $15,000,000 insurance placed by the N. G. L.; and in her partially completed state she was insured by her builders, Blohm & Voss, for $9,500,000 in the event of total loss. What they can now collect is a matter of "adjustment." They paid $3 per $500 coverage for an expected building period of 21 months. In London -world centre of maritime insurance- the disaster was declared "absolutely without precedent," since no such mighty leviathan has ever burned in course of construction. Result: the prevailing London rate of 8% for a "constructive...
...Secretary of the Treasury Mellon being quoted as saying that neither the rediscount rate nor the Mitchell resignation were even discussed. Merger Mitchell. ''Very interesting," was all that Banker Mitchell said when told of the Glass attack. Mr. Mitchell's mind was occupied with an important matter - the merger of National City with Farmers' Loan and Trust. Announced early this week, the amalgamation created a banking institution with total resources of $2,100,000,000. Inasmuch as the Guaranty Trust-Bank of Commerce merger (TIME, March 4) had produced a bank with resources...
...biography of Henry Ford. He illustrates instead the period of American development that is best illuminated by the highlights of Ford's career. The result is a logical piece of writing, efficient in its grasp of factual detail, but devoid of any great inspiration. Perhaps the subject matter is too familiar; perhaps the perspective too short. Unheralded by newspaper publicity, the first of the highlights were the successive experiments in mechanics that culminated in the historic Lizzy, Model T. For five years Model T was turned out of the Dearborn factory with increasingly unbelievable speed till it became...
Consequently he has placed the whole matter in the hands of a New York attorney who handles the legal transactions of the Actors Equity Association. Many complications in regard to the case have arisen, since the music in question has recently been copyrighted by Irving Berlin. It was supposed that the book "Laff It Off" was copyrighted in 1925. However there is no record of it in Washington...