Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rest assured it is not because I dislike being a year older!" flashed II Duce as he engaged the gears. "No?my reason is that nothing must interrupt the ordered rhythm of Fascist work. There are enough holidays on our Italian calendar already ?in fact too many!" and letting in his clutch the Dictator vanished, inconsistently, for a birthday holiday. Speeding to the seacoast he boarded a waiting seaplane, was soon soaring around the toe and heel of Italy, headed at last up the Adriatic in a flight of over 1200 miles...
...handkerchief to his cheek. An observer said, "There goes the Mayor, looking half shot." An excitable woman heard, saw the handkerchief, started a report that the Mayor had been shot. Two hours later the Mayor arrived at the City Hall, explained to a frantic horde of reporters that the reason for the handkerchief had been three bad teeth, to be extracted the next...
Studebaker Corp. of America last week announced price cuts ranging from $20 to $250. Increased production volume and concentration of all Studebaker manufacturing at South Bend, Ind., was announced as reason for the cuts. Studebaker also announced a new seven-passenger Commander Eight sedan and a President limousine, adding two new units to its 8-cylinder line...
...Chanin Building at so much a share but will buy stock in the Chanin company. If the investing public can be induced to think of real estate in terms of stocks and bonds and not in terms of brick and earth, there would seem to be no reason why the investing public will not learn to trade in real estate securities...
Despite prophecies that the winner of the contest would mysteriously become a "second Edison" at once, and rumors that Inventor Edison would turn all his duties over to the "brightest bright boy" and then retire, the contest was held for no such spectacular reason. Its purpose was described in the rules as "to stimulate the interest of the youth of America in mental development, with particular emphasis on scientific matters, and, more generally, in the high ideals that make for the highest type of American manhood." When reports that he would retire continued, Inventor Edison said, "I never intend retiring...