Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Electric's first quarter of 1929 broke all records in sales billed, orders and net. The net was $13,862,298, or $1.92 per share...
...Worcester, Mass., last week went France's learned Ambassador-Poet-Play-wright Paul Claudel. His purpose: to visit Assumption College on its 25th anniversary. So distinguished a Frenchman as he could not go to Worcester without causing a civic demonstration. Fully one-quarter of Worcester's total population (197,600) is foreign-born and mostly French or French-Canadian. Of Worcester's four daily newspapers, one, l'Opinion Publique, is printed in French. When ce brave Monsieur Claudel arrived in Worcester, he found 30,000 cheering citizens waiting for him. Assumption College was M. Claudel...
...March, Hudson shipped 44,295 cars, exceeding its March 1928 (record month) production by almost 11,000. Hudson-Essex, combined, produced more than 108,000 units in the first three months of 1929, are scheduled for an April production of 45,000. Hudson enjoyed a record-breaking first quarter in 1929, earning $4,567,783 or $2.68 per share. Production included 1,585 cars sent abroad and 6,178 to Canada, greatest Hudson export mark. Plants are operating at capacity (1,900 cars daily) but the number of cars on hand and with distributors is below normal...
Extravagant U. S. smokers may pay 15? for a 15? package of cigarets. Shrewd cigaret buyers, however, find little difficulty in getting two packs for a quarter, one pack for 13?. At Atlantic & Pacific chain stores, indeed, a carton (ten packs) of 15? cigarets is sold at $1.14, and R. H. Macy & Co., famed price reducer, offers the carton at $1.09. Thus the "list price" of the largest selling cigarets has been cut a penny here, a penny there, and several pennies elsewhere...
...York University, the winner in this race, set up an astonishing record of 3 minutes, 28 and 1-5 seconds, breaking the previous mark by six seconds. The event is run in four legs of 440, 330, 330, and 880 yards respectively. The running of Tupper who covered the quarter in 49 and 3-5 seconds featured from the Harvard angle...