Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obscure and relatively insignificant house; since then he has increased its business to an enormous extent. The Leverhulme sale, held in his rooms two years ago, was probably the most spectacular art auction ever held in the U. S. The American Galleries, nonetheless, is still ahead; its total business averages about $6,000,000 a year. When the two galleries are merged, they will accept bids which aggregate about $9,000,000 every year; thus surpassing, financially at least, famed Christie's, in London, which has, during the last 150 years, housed more beautiful paintings than the Louvre...
Prince Bismarck declared, towards the end of his days, that destiny fixed the total of every man's consumption of pleasurable goods. His own two major quotas, he specified, were 36,000 bottles of wine and 150,000 strong cigars. Statisticians do not know how many inhabitants of the U. S. consumed the 97,176,607,484 cigarets manufactured in 1927. Women have come to swell the legion, and for the first time in history the 1927 advertising budgets contained provisions for direct appeals to them. (Marlboro cigarets pushed the first overt advertising campaign for women smokers.) Production...
This commerce with the eastern and western worlds has brought prosperity to the islands. Last week's compilations of dividends declared for 1927 by 29 of the major Hawaiian corporations showed a total of $17,700,243 as compared with $14,788,000.for 1926. Most of the companies reporting paid dividends at rates of from 10% to 15%, while several concerns maintained rates of from...
...word was often a direct denial of its companion thought. Suspicion, mastered grief, cynicism, inferiority?the raw matter of truth?were permitted and expressed. The author tried devotedly to give his hearers a third theatrical dimension. The strange convention, difficult at first to grasp, soon blended into the engrossing total...
...subject of the total abolition of submarines Commander Ellsberg remarked, "Submarines will be prohibited as soon as all warfare is abolished. Submarines have practically no use at all except as weapons of war, and I hope that the time will come when all weapons of war are done away with." The Commander said a few words concerning the financial practicality of salvaging sunken submarines: "A ship such as the S-51 costs in the neighborhood of three million dollars to construct; the cost for salvaging, allowing four-hundred thousand dollars for the reconditioning of the craft, is enough below this...