Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also devote the proceeds to the development of farm fertilizers. The dual project of the Norris plan is sound, but it has more than this to recommend it. It will provide a test of the comparative merits of public and private operation. If the government can make a success of the Muscle Shoals plant under the Norris plan which not only pays for itself, but also is concerned with the public interest through the manufacture of fertilizers, a precedent will be established for further government control. At all events, should the test prove successful or not, the House would...
...Dunninger, psychic condition meant nothing. In a biographical sketch which he contributed to Science and Invention Magazine the publication which sponsored his most recent strange doings, he calmly remarked: "Good 'patter' speeches well studied, and a smiling personality, spell success in magical performances...
...docile crowd coagulated before one of the National City Bank's branches in Manhattan an early morning last week. Behind the bank's bolted doors and copper-framed windows employes pulled themselves tense with the expectation of rushing business, and glowed with pride at the immediate success of their President Charles Edwin Mitchell's new banking idea. President Mitchell had announced that this bank (biggest in the U. S.) would loan $50 to $1,000 at 6% interest to responsible employed persons, with no other security than their own signatures and the endorsement of two respectable friends...
...success of "Morris Plan" banks made enterprising bankers study the field. In New York City the National City group made surveys ; in Buffalo the Marine Trust group (Chairman Elliott C. McDougal, President George Franklin Rand,* Vice-President, Seymour H. Knox). Last week the Marine Trust announced that it would loan money at 6%, without security, to salaried persons. Mr. Mitchell's National City had anticipated Buffalo...
This is the first dance of this nature ever to be held for college races on the Charles, and if the experiment proves a success, the tea dances will be made a regular custom...