Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Billings' business is investments, his life is sports. He would rather be the owner, breeder and driver of the fastest trotting horses than have the power and riches of a Croesus. As a sportsman, he is strictly an amateur. None of his horses have ever raced for money; in fact, at his own racetrack in Memphis he prohibits all betting. It cost him a million dollars to produce Lou Dillon and her record, but he was glad...
...last week, was in sober truth mere routine for Dillon, Read, who have placed $85,000,000 of securities for the Government of Brazil, $81,000,000 for the Canadian National Railways, $35,000,000 for the Republic of Poland, and $15,000,000 for the Great Consolidated Electric Power Co. of Japan. Not the capacity of U. S. finance to float and absorb loans but the ultimate capacity of Germany to work off interest and principal, must needs absorb Messrs. Morgan, Dillon, Gilbert and many another for years to come...
...hundred and twelve million U. S. inhabitants acknowledge the executive shepherdage of Calvin Coolidge, refuse to "recognize" the 139 million Soviet Russians over whom Joseph Stalin has reared himself a despot. M. Stalin ("Mr. Steel") exerts, simply as Secretary of the Communist Party, a political "boss power" prodigious and all pervasive. A cobbler's son whose actual name and age are doubtful, "Mr. Steel," was born in the remote Transcaucasian land of Vras-tan, Gruzia or Georgia.* Amid the purging flames of revolution, the great Dictator Lenin tested and tempered the Georgian's metal, gave him the prophetic...
...Neutrality on the part of one signatory power is provided in the event of the other signatory being attacked without provocation by a third power...
...instead of the pay-booth. She is Winston-Salem's first hostess and sets the pace for hospitality. Climbing a steep green hill you arrive in the city's centre, where a huge factory, trim and modernized, notifies you at once of the city's presiding power: REYNOLDS...