Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Attorney General and his department received a notice to vacate their quarters. The Wardman Co., owners of the building in which the Department of Justice is housed,*announced that the Government is now paying $75,000 a year rent on the building whereas they could obtain $165,000 by converting it into a store and office building...
There "knock-out" is a kind of smart chicanery by which art dealers reap illicit gains. Instead of bidding against each other, they obtain valuable objects at insignificant cost by forming a pool and appointing a representative to bid for them. Whatever is bought in the interests of the pool is sold again to private individuals or at other auctions and the profits divided. It was an open secret among the Trade in London that the Leverhulme "knock-out" would net its participants approximately half a million dollars out of the pockets of the estate...
Practice for the men picked will be held each week, the object being to obtain coordinated power, which has been noticeably lacking in past years...
When Mr. Baldwin in 1922, reached the United States, several members of the American War Debt Commission had figured out that it would be very hard to obtain from Great Britain, for the funding of her debt, an interest superior to 2%. They had in a sense resigned themselves to such a low interest. To their great astonishment, they heard Mr. Baldwin propose himself an interest...
This increased production per unit has led to great improvements in cigarmaking machinery, thus releasing makers from many irksome union restrictions and cheapening costs. Large cigar-makers are consequently planning national advertising campaigns to obtain national distribution of their products. They predict that within a few years the 5-cent cigar will once more be a staple U. S. product, of good quality and huge demand...