Word: shrunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Equally mysterious are the changes in liabilities. The company's 172,645 shares of stock are still carried at a par value of only $17,264,500. "Accounts payable" have shrunk from $51,002,155 to $33,116,230. "Employes' investments" are up from $20,357,783 to $23,459,389. "Accrued expenses and taxes" have declined from $37,253,092 to $28,122,715. "Amortization of patents" was $183,028 in 1923 and $185,138 last year. Meanwhile "surplus"-the freak item of the whole statement-has increased from $442,041,081 to the colossal...
...beginning of 1925, stocks of refined copper amounted to 272,868,000 pounds. By July, these had shrunk 90,000,000 to 182,652,000 pounds. As for prices, copper began 1925 at slightly over 14? a pound, dipped last spring to 13 1/2? and recently has recovered to 14 1/4?. For several years the price of copper has been unique among commodity prices in that it was below rather than above pre-War prices...
...certain Mrs. Mary McCormick from Cedar Rapids, had for six years suffered from a form of neuritis. She had journeyed from specialist to specialist without avail. When she entered the hospital, she regarded her death as a matter of weeks. Her originally large body (223 Ibs.) ossified, shrunk to almost nothing (40 Ibs.), the withered flesh hardened, taking on a stony texture; her jaws set, it became impossible for her to eat. Last week she died...
...destroying fact ... no funds . . association has shrunk. . . ." Such phrases came, last week, from the lips of Gutzon Borglum, famed sculptor. He, glum, was deploring the withdrawal of public support from the great memorial to the Confederacy which, under his direction, has been rising on the face of Stone Mountain, Ga. (TIME, Aug. 13, 1923; May 26, 1924). Those two proud gentlemen, Generals Lee and Jackson, stand raised among their armies on the mountain's craggy front, half- formed. In the U. S. mint, 5,000,000 half-dollar coins, with Lee and Jackson riding their horses across one side...
...government hands partly because of legal and political impediments and partly because of lack of sufficiently large accumulations of private capital. As a reservoir of capital is formed from commercial profits, the industrial field will soon cease to be monopolized by the government. In agriculture, the communistic artels have shrunk to less than one-fourth of their original size and members. Those which still operate have abandoned the purely communistic system for an arrangement of guaranteed minimum wages and devotion of a small part of each member's product to common needs, such as farm equipment. Cooperative societies, however, both...