Word: three-and-a-half
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...Bill White. I wish he were here. I've known Bill for a great many years, and he is a very good friend of mine. I ought to qualify that and say he's a very good friend of mine for three-and-a-half out of every four years...
Last week the directors of Fairbanks Morse & Co. declared a $3.50 dividend of their preferred stock-first in three-and-a-half years. The venerable Chicago industrial concern is largely a producer of durable goods. From 1929 to 1932 annual sales dropped from $31,500,000 to $8,500,000, and total Depression losses footed...
...California's newest and finest track. A crowd of 18,000 turned out to see the old argument finally decided, watched a four-year-old filly named High Glee win the seven-furlong race by two lengths with a new track record. Mate was second. Twenty Grand three-and-a-half lengths behind...
...concessionaires and subconcessionaires have not been made public. Some of them leased their concessions at a flat rate but most of them were on a royalty basis so that their gross take was known: $27,000,000. Receipts of concessions at the southern end of the three-and-a-half mile long fair grounds were a disappointment although they improved as the summer wore on. Down there, "Mexico" and "Wings of a Century" became good attractions. The latter lost $20,000 a week at first, made money by midsummer, played to capacity crowds...
Like Mark Twain and John Singer Sargent, even a sea-elephant might think it funny to see his own obituary notices. But great-tusked, bulging-eyed, three-and-a-half ton Goliath, "the only sea-elephant in captivity," employe of Circusman John Ringling, never looks happy, and last fortnight he looked no happier when the press carried countrywide news of his death (TIME, Oct. 7). There was one sentence, moreover, which might have given gloomy thoughts to the happiest of sea-elephants: "Goliath will be mounted for the Field Museum [Chicago]." While the Field Museum congratulated itself, Goliath was basking...