Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Unlike the other three Cardinals-designate, Mgr. Binet belongs to no religious order. At present only five Cardinals are members of orders - two Franciscan, one Benedictine, one Jesuit, one Silesian...
Investors in Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Montgomery Ward & Co., mail order stocks last week watched their securities become speculative favorites on both the Chicago and the New York stock exchanges. In Manhattan where one day the total trading in all listed stocks came close to 3,000,000 those mail order securities accounted for 6% of the transactions-Montgomery Ward around 109,000 shares; Sears, Roebuck more than 72,000 shares. Deals in Radio Corporation of America alone exceeded theirs that day. The same day in Chicago their sales together accounted for nearly 45% of the Chicago exchange...
...regulate the queues in other "key cities," notably Kansas City, Cincinnati, Norfolk, Omaha, Boston, St. Louis, Richmond, Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Atlanta. In England the railroads ran excursion trains to the London exhibition. Englishmen paid one shilling & sixpence (36c) to look at the models. They ordered 64,000 cars. In Manhattan a rascal took advantage of the local gullibility. He passed through the showroom throngs with an "order book" in his hand, promising delivery in three weeks upon a deposit of $25. When detectives approached him he ran away with many a $25 stuffed...
...relation of small to big businesses in the U. S. Its investigators found, they reported last week, that concerns engaged in manufacturing, mining and commerce employ on the average ten persons each; manufacturing plants average 44.7 each, wholesale houses 14 to 15, retail establishments five to six. Mail order houses, chain stores and department stores handle only 30% of the national business. However, in 1925, one-third of the manufacturing plants produced nine-tenths of the country's manufactured products and employed nearly nine-tenths of the wage-earners in industry. Significance: small businesses can and do exist...
...Development of the lonic Order, the Erechtheum," Professor Chase, New Fogg...