Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distance, would pay the same personal property taxes and the earnings on the business would pay the same Federal income tax no matter where it was owned. Mr. Crabtree is right, however, to this extent, that the earnings of a business which is owned locally are spent locally, but the earnings which are sent to the distant owner are spent in a far away place...
...away with it cash-registers, cheese-cutters, scales and desks. Often his premiums wiped out his profits and he never made much money until he started to advertise, first in small town papers and store windows, then on billboards and in city papers. When he had $100,000 he spent it all on an advertising campaign in Manhattan, got no returns. He saved up $100,000 more, spent that the same way, then $250,000 that brought back his losses and put him way ahead. "I'm strong for honest ballyhoo, but you can't treat them...
...Besides Lucky Strike, its brands include Sweet Caporal, Pall Mall, Lord Salisbury, Bull Durham, Tuxedo, Half and Half, Blue Boar, Cremo. But the American Tobacco Co., as all the world knows, has concentrated on Lucky Strikes, for which most of its 1929 advertising budget of $12,300,000 was spent. The campaign was directed almost entirely by the company's President George Washington Hill. Born of rich parents, Mr. Hill is regularly mentioned by Hearst Columnist Arthur Brisbane as one case where a rich man's son has not been a loafer. Silent, clever, he has originated many...
Dimly Miss Oelrichs remembers the house at Newport where she spent her childhood, petticoated among socialites who were her family's friends. But while Miss Oelrichs was still young her mother divorced Mr. Oelrichs on grounds of cruelty. With alimony small, with income from other sources slight, young "Bubbles" Oelrichs found herself growing up to the problem of maintaining a position with little money...
...been successfully launched once more, the Vagabond can devote himself to his duties with greater assurance. College seems to be existing in some sort of suspended animation until the band has blared the familiar marches through Harvard Square for the first time and the first October afternoon has been spent looking down on the struggling players and cavorting cheer leaders from a perch high up in the horseshoe. But with the opening Saturday once passed the vast conglomeration that is a university settles down into the rhythm than continues, save for a change of tempo with the seasonal variations, until...