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Word: totaled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hand. Before long, all the ugly famous criminals, the sly and silent actresses, the solemn, musty presidents and the fake policemen stationed to fool visitors-all these people with their stiff faces and their blind, secretive eyes, sharing also with their no less sly, no less secretive models the total inability to escape destruction, became puddles or streams of burning wax. Lindbergh looked brave no longer, a murderer lowered the frail knife which he had held so long in a poised and useless threat. All this frail company of famous people dwindled, slipped, leaned and perished into a huge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Mar. 19, 1928 | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...carrying business of the U. S. The three oldtime companies have valuable stock interests in this temporary express trust, which enormously increases the market value of their own shares. The holdings of Adams Express in American Railway Express stock were estimated last week at $10,904,300 of the total $34,642,000 capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Baggage Plan | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...published last week, was far and , away the most encouraging document which the financial year had so far brought forth. Assets of $1,098,477,577, an increase of $77,583,470 over 1926 earnings of $235,104,826, the largest peacetime result ever achieved by a corporation; total business of $1,269,519,673-these figures stimulated Wall Street speculators and investors everywhere, and they bought 2,431,500 shares of General Motors stock in five and one-half days, lifting the price of the stock from $144¾ to a high point of $161. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Stock Market | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...galleries of the Stock Exchange, knew that General Electric Co., Westinghouse Electric Co., National Bank of Pittsburgh and the famed Fisher Brothers of Detroit owned between them almost all of the 1,155,400 shares of Radio Corporation stock outstanding. Shorts had nevertheless risked selling one third of this total down to $85¼ a share. The night before it had closed at $121¼ The opening bidding and asking scene at the Radio Corporation post was a football scrimmage of hysterical, shrieking stock brokers. Radio Corporation finally opened at $120½ A few minutes later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Stock Market | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

Smith not only received the greatest number of total votes, but also obtained twice as many votes for first place as Hoover, his nearest rival. Dawes received four firsts, while Reed, Lowden, and Norris got one each. Curtis, Walsh, and Ritchie got no first places...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SMITH PICKED BY LIBERALS AS PRESIDENTIAL CHOICE | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

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