Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There are so many aviation patents and so much litigation developed from them that holders of aviation patents finally formed a holding company, Manufacturers' Aircraft Association, in which nearly all U. S. aviation patents were pooled, each contributor having an equity in the profits on all the patents. General Motors has, all along, been represented in the Association through membership of two subsidiaries, Dayton-Wright Co. and Fisher Bodies Corp...
Heads. The hatter deals with heads as much as with hats, and many a famed head, including the heads of 23 U. S Presidents, has been protected and ornamented with Knox hats. The hatter, of course, takes a bird's-eye view of heads and in the Knox files are thousands of outlines (technically known as "conforms") of heads as they appear when looked straight down at. Generally speaking, there are two main types of outline-a long, narrow ellipse hardly wider at the centre than at the ends, and a short, pear-shaped figure with the wide part...
...size takers are Calvin Coolidge and Al Jolson. John D. Rockefeller Sr. wears a 7½ John D. Rockefeller Jr. a 7⅜. The largest hat ever made was a special order from a Ringling Brothers Giant, who weighed 480 pounds and took an 8⅞. There is not much variation in straw hat styles, straws of the present (delayed) season tending toward a narrowed brim and a slightly bell-shaped crown...
...have they much chance of becoming intelligently informed. Financial literature is usually written for financiers only. A corporate announcement concerning the issue of 20 million dollars in 4½% convertible debentures makes little sense to the simple soul who is merely looking for a good aero stock. Neither are the standard financial columns, vague in their statements, technical in their language, obscure in their significance, of much help to him. Thus the small investor is forced to select his stocks largely by the Blindfold Test...
Optional Consumption. Furthermore, much of recent consumption has been "optional"-i. e., has consisted of purchases made from choice rather than necessity...