Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lipshutz categorized as follows: "The first group was the social group. Nice-young-men-from-good-families, who made up the more decorative part of the student body. . . . Group number two, quite as definite, was the wicked group- an off-colour mixture of boys from all races and all families, who sat in the rear of the rooms and cried their vices to each other . . . were still young enough to regard a prostitute as an adventure. . . . The third group was the group of serious students who were not social about it . . . went in for higher mathematics, and for chess...
...Fords. Measured by the simple yardstick of units produced, the automobile industry would appear to be thriving. Yet while the number of cars manufactured during the first eight months of 1929 showed a 37.2% increase* over the same period last year, this was almost entirely accounted for by the phenomenal rise in Ford production. In July and August this Ford increase offset the decline shown by other manufacturers and accounted for approximately 40% of the total cars produced in the U. S. and Canada. These facts are illustrated in the following table compiled by the Wall Street Journal...
...Another increase was in the number of people killed by automobile accidents. The National Safety Congress reported last week a new high rate during August of 91 fatalities a day, or the annual rate...
...Most consistently prosperous of railroads is the Pennsylvania. Paying its 188th consecutive dividend last week, the Pennsylvania mailed checks to 150,060 stockholders, over half of whom are women. In addition to this number, nearly 100,000 officers and employes are buying stock on the installment plan...
Battalino v. Routis. In Connecticut, to make draws unlikely, fights are scored by points instead of round by round. A fighter can win a maximum number of five points in each round, points for being the most aggressive, for landing the cleanest punches. In Hartford little Christopher Battalino, local boy with black curly hair, scored 75 points to 56 and won the world's featherweight championship from Windmill André Routis by holding Routis' whirling arms when he got close and hitting him when he backed away...