Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the stock-market is happy and the motor industry hale, there will be plenty of people who want to go to U. S. prizefights, however wretched they may be. It is not probable therefore that Max Schmeling, if he becomes heavyweight champion, will be expected to defend his title in the back rooms of speakeasies, like John L. Sullivan, or on a barge, like James J. ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett. The other champions,* of whom Tex Rickard made a list before he died, are as well off as ever. But perhaps million-dollar gates are now definitely in the past...
...world's largest operator of cinema houses. He cited figures. He had just added a new group of 40 independent theatres in and near Manhattan, with annual profits of $5,000,000, seating capacity of 280,000. Acquisition of this new group, called Fox Metropolitan Playhouses Inc.. may bring Fox gross business in 1929 to a total of $135,000,000, Fox sealing capacity to 700,000. To fortify further his position as "biggest" William Fox gave out figures for 1930. By then, 1,000,000 persons will be ushered to seats nightly in Fox theatres. By then...
Forthwith Colonel Stewart returned from Manhattan to Chicago with the words: "If the Rockefellers want to fight, I'll show them how to fight. . . . I may be mistaken, but it seems to me that I owe fully as much to the person holding ten shares of Standard Oil of Indiana . . . as I may owe one who has so much wealth that he has to hire experts to spend his income...
...Standard Oil Co. of Indiana has issued 9,160,000 shares of capital stock. †President E. G. Seubert of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana was mentioned in the Rockefeller letter as a "loyal and devoted" leader. But he had long been considered a Stewart man. Now he may be the crux of the battle...
While Russia's rich peasants (Kulaki) want to reduce their 1929 acreage, Moscow has planned a vast tract, of 10,000,000 acres, where wheat may be grown abundantly and efficiently. As everyone knows, the world's most efficient wheatgrower is Montana's Thomas D. Campbell (TIME, Jan. 14, 1938), world's "biggest farmer." Most natural, therefore, was Moscow's decision to send a commission to the Campbell farm at Hardin, Mont. There, commissioners heard that the annual Campbell harvest tops 500,000 bushels...