Word: shared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ohio. The big issue was a referendum on a bill which would have reestablished "kangaroo courts" (justices of the peace who share in the fines they impose for liquor law violation).*The Anti-Saloon League pressed the bill as a Wet & Dry issue. The bill was defeated by some 300,000 votes. ... In Cleveland it was voted not to revert to mayoralty form of government, to retain the city manager plan, of which Cleveland is the most populous exponent...
...announced, almost as casually, that the corporation would pay to owners of their 17,400,000 shares (E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. own 25%) $65,250,000. In this amount, largest ever disbursed to shareholders at one time by any industrial concern, was a bonus of $2.50 for each share besides the regular quarterly dividend...
...year. "The Forecast Saga, "had led to a popular clamor for a sequel, to called "The Silver Shovel." And I promised to write it, but the little woman has put her foot down. She says my life story must not appear, that she does not want to have to share me with all the world. Vainly I tried to argue that there was enough of me to go round. "If there is, " I said, "something in my story that makes young hearts beat faster, is it fair not to give it to posterity?" But the was obdurate, and with typical...
About 40,723,981 persons of the U. S. 117,000,000 population last year were workers and, share alike, they each earned $2,210. So great a living standard prevails nowhere else...
...from the deal. Bargaining, they won a stake in the French market hitherto controlled by French monopoly. Match making machinery and raw products for match making are to be sold in France by the Scandinavian concern, their agreement said. In this new trade opening the International Co. is to share...