Word: money
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contributions given by W. I. Nichols '26 and R. H. Field '26, presidents of the CRIMSON for 1926. The funds were originally intended to supply three cups, the last of which has just been won by the Choate, News, but a residue and the accumulated interest has left enough money to present a fourth cup. The 1926 editors have requested the competition to be continued another year and it is expected that a contest will get underway in the near future. Although the competition has been limited in the past to those school newspapers belonging to the School Newspaper Federation...
...figures for 1930. By then, 1,000,000 persons will be ushered to seats nightly in Fox theatres. By then, 20 new theatres, for which land has been already chosen, will be erected. Whiskey. The Fisher brothers of Detroit are everywhere at once. Last week rumor put their money in Canadian whiskey, in a merger which will form the world's largest distilling company. U. S. capital, perhaps Fisher, is heavily invested in Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts Ltd., which controls more than half of Canada's whiskey. Last week dickerings went on between Walker and two other large...
Thus on a 1918 investment of $55,000, the shrewd buyer could now realize $304,500, or about 600%. Rare indeed is the securities investment with such a return. Many a stockmarketer turned to his first editions, last week, considered the less usual ways of making money...
More and more novels. More and more notoriety. More and more money. The Belly of Paris captured the public. Zola grew fatter, became a bluff, boorish figure in cafe & salon life. People revolted at Naturalism but read it. Staunchly its founder proceeded, one thousand words...
Editor Mayer stated that he wished to purchase Panorama and continue publishing it. He said that his offer of a "large sum of money" had been refused, that the cost of the venture had been $63,000. He sketched briefly the history of Panorama; it opened at 25¢ a copy in October, dropped to 15¢ in November. Advertising rates picked up slowly. Its circulation was 7,000 at the close. Said Editor Mayer: "Panorama is not yet dead...