Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thoroughly the smoking-for-women trend has swept the country is now demonstrated by the increasing number of big railroads which have felt themselves obliged to print "Smoking Permitted" on their menus. The exhalation of smoke from feminine lungs is becoming, in the aggregate, a mighty blast of fashion which railroad economists may not ignore. Railroads which have already trimmed their sails to catch this blast...
...flag whenever possible. This irritating propensity, together with his blatant assurance, are the most disagreeable qualities in a man who is otherwise a shrewd and skillful playwright, a mime whose side-of-the-mouth technique with songs or wisecracks has made him a success in an almost infinite number of "American comedies," from Little Johnny Jones to The Merry Malones...
...Other railroad presidents already on the board are Ralph Budd, head of Great Northern, and Charles Donnelly, head of Northern Pacific. Besides bankers of four States (including James E. Woodward, president of Metals Bank of Butte and Sam Stephenson, president of First National of Great Falls) the board will number leading industrialists. Among those already chosen are John D. Ryan, Cornelius F. Kelly, and L. O. Evans, respectively the chairman, president and general manager of Anaconda Copper Mining Co., gigantic producer and fabricator not only of copper, but zinc, lead, silver, gold, antimony, arsenic...
...department store (TIME, July 8), the price paid was not disclosed, was left to be inferred from Bamberger's earnings of $2,915,375 in 1928. Last week R. H. Macy filed application with the New York Stock Exchange to list 146.385 additional shares of stock. Of this number 69,210 shares (worth at the present market nearly $15,000,000) were given in part payment to the stockholders of L. Bamberger. The remaining 77,175 shares were offered at $145 to Macy stockholders, netting $11,190,375 of which nearly all will be used to complete the purchase...
Swiss. Two Swiss flyers, Oscar Kaesar, 22, and Kurt Luescher, 21, neither of them a navigator, flew from Lisbon, Portugal, toward New York last fortnight. A German steamer saw them near the Azores. No one has seen them since. Total number of flyers lost trying to fly the Atlantic westward...