Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foregoing are representative of a clean-cut subscriber majority against increasing the number of pictures in TIME. But the number will not be decreased...
Chicago's police adopted the handiest explanation: the Moran gang had avenged the St. Valentine's Day massacre. The Spooner's Nook find brought the number of Chicago underworldlings who have met violent death this year to 20, an all-time high for the first five months of any year...
...tourists dozing last week in the morgue-like lobby of the Hotel Cecil in London awoke with a start as a strange procession wound between the marble pillars and overstuffed chairs. First came a clergyman in surplice and stole. Then came a number of large dignified gentlemen in silk hats and cutaway coats, and finally a file of choir boys, correctly black cassocked and white collared but with hair strangely mussed, cheeks unusually bright...
...adoption of a uniform curbstone for all U. S. cities. Last fortnight Department of Commerce minds bent themselves to the task of simplifying the wheelbarrow industry. No less than 168 different types of wheelbarrows trundle through U. S. streets, yards, farms. To 22 types this number should be reduced. Last week the Department came to grips with men's pajamas and their standardization. On request of the nightwear manufacturers' division of the International Association of Garment Manufacturers, a conference was held at Washington to define a minimum standard measurement for male pajamas...
General Realty. Concerning an unspecified number of shares in General Realty, Mr. Broun claimed that he is "wholly in the dark," having purchased common stock on a tip from a friend whose advice was based on the preferred. Mr. Broun was, therefore, unaware that the full name of his company is General Realty & Utilities Corp., that it is a holding company for real estate and for public utility stocks. Thus far (it was incorporated in January, 1929), General Realty has functioned chiefly in the realty field, holds 100,000 shares of Thompson-Starrett Co., and has as yet engaged...