Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fusion of two firms does not violate the law unless it places one in a position of dominant control," which this fusion did not do, since Swift & Co. does more business than Armour and Morris combined. (Of all animals killed last year, Swift killed 24.2%, Armour-Morris 23.5%.) Besides, the big packers find that their sternest competition is with the 1,300 smaller packers...
...swift was the Singing Waiter's rise from Rags to Riches that the reversal hardly lends enough body to his biographer's Cinderella-theme. When Berlin was 19, Nigger Mike discharged him. Within four years, he had written a tune which was played in every corner of the U. S., in Shanghai, Moscow and along the Riviera, which "came in brass across the harbor of Singapore from the boats riding at anchor there"?Alexander's Ragtime Band. Within four years more, he had written hundreds of other successful songs, including When That Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam, Everybody...
Owing to the overcrowding of a pontoon, 84 Reichswehr soldiers lost their lives in the swift River Weser during Army maneuvers. The Reichstag held a "mourning session," flags were at half mast all over Germany...
...swift spread of the radio habit in the U. S., coupled with the heavy increase in the sale of radio equipment, has led many business men to predict a similar expansion in Europe...
...instead of being a psychopathic case, is a convert to Fundamentalism trying like a Mussulman to roar up to Heaven with the life of a Modernist for registration, license, and gate pass. Whatever the explanation, the humor of the situation is rapidly passing beyond that stage characterized by Dean Swift as "A college joke to help the dumps...