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Word: minimum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rich man who owns no private car may rent one from the Pullman Co. at a minimum rate of $175 for two days or less and $75 per day thereafter, in addition to carrying charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: No More Free Rides | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...keen as a bayonet edge. Luxury features of the Bremen include a street of arcaded shops; an all-night night club called The Astoria; and an optional Ritz Restaurant, where first class passengers may pay extra for a la carte food. First class Bremen tickets cost $315 up-"Highest minimum rate on the Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Bremen Uber Alles | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...Chicago Daily News, Chicago Tribune,* San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor. President is the Tribune's Joseph Pierson, trustee for American Publishers Committee. Capitalization was set at $1,000,000, of which $116,000 was paid in. Stock may be purchased by subscribing news-purveyors, minimum $1,000, maximum $25,000. Stockholders are given rights to send news through the ten stations of the company soon to be erected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Heroine | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...Terminal Co., a company which was said not to be operating, if it had ever been formed. Also the brothers had apparently borrowed $404,-995 from their own bank. Thus while Clarke Bros, claimed assets of $5,852-377, the actual value of these assets was figured at a minimum of $640,000 and a maximum of $1,830,000. There are some 3,000 depositors, none of whom will receive anything for at least three months. Six depositors said their deposits had been accepted the day before the bank closed. Laymen who think that banks are banks all alike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clarke Crash | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...having lunched, he goes motoring (35 m. p. h. minimum speed). Sometimes he goes as far as Bridgeport, to see his good friend, Mrs. Ira Warner. Returning he telephones No. 26 Broadway, transacts business, for he has not completely retired from oil. At 7:30, formally dressed, he sits down to dinner. Over the cloth he may tell a tale or two and his audience knows when to laugh. After dinner there is his favorite game, "Numerica." He plays it without cards or money. In bed by 11, John D. wills himself to sleep almost instantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Doctor's Son | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

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