Word: size
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white-haired Eastman founded a $17,000,000 school of music in Rochester. This huge establishment was somewhat grandiose for a town of Rochester's size, but the Eastman School of Music flourished, and is today counted one of the most important music conservatories...
...Detroit steel market, has had much of its capacity in Pittsburgh and Chicago idle because of stagnant demand for capital goods. Last quarter it made only 18? a share on its preferred stock, grimly paid holders the $1.75 coming to them: the difference, $5,644,368 (nearly half the size of Chrysler's profit for the quarter), came out of a generation of accumulated fat. This followed a $32,937,131 drain in 1938, caused by a loss of $7,717,454 and preferred stock dividends of $25,219,677. Once Steel's common holders worried anxiously about...
...steadily spinning filaments of silk. This valuable regurgitation has gone on in Japan for centuries but rarely has it been such a source of interest to the outside world. For in the next few weeks enough cocoons will have come to market for the silk industry to estimate the size of the 1939-40 crop. And upon that size depends: 1) the immediate outcome of the, tightest U. S. silk squeeze in history, 2) the fate of certain speculators, 3) whether the cost of silk stockings on the leg is going to be higher this summer...
Indications that the great stellar systems in space may possess outlying sparsely populated star "haloes" extending the system for beyond the size astronomers have generally assigned to them were reported by Dr. Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Observatory speaking before a symposium of distinguished astronomers at the dedication of the McDonald Observatory's new 82-inch reflector yesterday...
Billy didn't waste much time. Cramming his half eaten dog into Vag's hand, he scrambled onto the platform. At the game time Vag sniffed the wiener carelessly, trying to look as if he weren't with anybody. It smelled so good he took a size able bite, and hoped Billy wouldn't notice...