Word: money
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...books to the conferences. Government accountants studied them during the fortnight, calling in the operators occasionally. They were impatient to get back to their own offices in different parts of the country. But exigency kept them irefully at Washington. The accountants discovered that some of the operators were making money on their mail business. Most were not. The money-makers argued that their present profits were just beginning to wipe out the losses which they had endured in previous years. A strong debating point was the fact that the Government needs a large and efficient air service to provide trained...
Other changes have been made. A young man marrying where money is will no longer have to announce that he is endowing his more economically potent bride with all his worldly goods. The newly married couple will no longer be urged by the officiating minister to follow the example of Isaac and Rebecca...
From this idleness aviation rescued him. Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown of New York University was trying to raise money for an aviation course. He asked Mr. Guggenheim to write a money-getting letter. Mr. Guggenheim wrote the letter, showed it to his father for any suggestions that might improve it. So effective was the appeal that it immediately "sold" Daniel Guggenheim on aviation, resulted in the elder Guggenheim himself establishing the now famed $2,500,000 Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics. It was as president of this Fund that Harry Guggenheim met Charles Augustus Lindbergh just before...
...death of a Hallowe'en party on an old Southern manor. He hid in the dark for fun and was murdered. Various of the 13 glamorous guests had ample motive for the crime. King had injured practically all of them, with his piratical lust for women and money. Authoress Hart, who wrote The Bellamy Trial, famed smash hit, has inlaid her mystery with a filigree of wit and romance, confined the action to one night, eliminated detectives. The result is incredibly novel, exciting...
...advantage of tax-exemption in all cases has seemed to some an anachronism which long since should have been done away with. The advantages which the town receives from having the university within its limits are universally recognized, but that they more than compensate for the loss of tax money on land of ever increasing value would be impossible to demonstrate. There must necessarily be a limit to the applicability of the principle of tax exemption for educational institutions...