Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...financing its customers at once arose. The General Electric Co. consequently organized the Electric Bond & Share Co. as a subsidiary, to supervise electrical engineering construction projects and to obtain capital for them. In enterprises so financed, purchases of electrical equipment were confined to the General Electric as a seller. The Electric Bond & Share Co. came to control directly or indirectly over 100 electric power, street railway and gas companies, with a combined capital of about $650,000,000 and serving a population of over 7,000,000 people...
...Full of what?" retorts the ready but shallow sophomore. And that depends upon what you read. The Syraeuse University Bookstore reports that its best seller is Papini's "Life of Christ". A gentle raising of the critical eyebrow marks Harvard's reserved surprise at this announcement. In the CRIMSON Bookshelf for November the Community Bookshop states that Harvard's "great interest these days is in the works of the modern sophisticates, Mencken, Nathan, Van Vochten, Machen, Dreisen, and others, that stimulate the critical faculties...
...superiority to find no spot, however remote, which does not honor the American Main Street by careful imitation. Henceforth, the wearied American can find no lotus laden sanctuary. The Old World is imbibing the go-getter philosophy in great draughts; Doctor Frank Crane's volumes are the best American seller in France. Even the Orient, dazzled by magnificent illusions of this wonderland of material prosperity forsakes its tradition of philosophic detachment, and its business men burn the ancestral red fire before the clay-footed idol of Efficiency...
Religious Book Best Seller...
...books which have already appeared this fall, the best seller has been "The Sense of Immortality" by Phillip Cabot '94. The fact that a religious book shows the greatest sales returns speaks well for the sincerity and force of Mr. Cabot's volume...