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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard University is a liberal institution as American universities go, but it is a hundred million dollar corporation and has all the prejudices of one. The Harvard Socialist Club has been victimized and discriminated against on every possible occasion...
...surprising that the oyster's prodigal fertility has generated a vigorous industry. No other fishery product is as valuable. Of pure water, minus shell and waste matter, 73,000 tons, worth $14,000,000, are marketed annually. Their food equivalent is the meat of 250,000 steers. A million acres of oyster land are under cultivation; at least another million are natural oyster farms...
...Chicago an eminent bookmaker estimated from his chronicles that one million dollars would be bet on the World Series. Last week's odds favored Philadelphia's Athletics11...
Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., president of General Motors Corp., watched his new million-dollar yacht, Rene, slide into the water at Wilmington, Del. Rene is the diminutive of Mrs. Sloan's name (Irene...
...another title of magnitude, the ultimate title, in fact, of "biggest in the world." Its merger with the Corn Exchange Bank Trust Co. swelled its resources to $2,386,066,401, a total sufficient to nose out the former "biggest," London's Midland Bank, Ltd., by a bare 83 million...