Word: totally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been made before. The research was started last fall and Professor Taussig estimates that it will be several months before the exact conclusions will be known due to the diverse nature of the replies received from business men. It is possible that tardy returns of questionnaires may swell the total considerably beyond its present sum. Professor Taussig and Mr. Joslyn have been aided in the present survey by an advisory board composed of J. H. Barnes, president of the American Chamber of Commerce, James Bell, president of the Washburn-Crosby Company, W. S. Gifford '05, president of the American Telephone...
...eccentric birds upon display. One, a featherless, wingless, soundless, egg-laying edible chicken was called the Kiwi. There were Buttercups from Sicily and Austrolops from Australia, and one three-legged hen. Newsmongers in their enormously disagreeable eagerness to make some funny sayings about the poultry show and in their total inability to do so hung in anxious frenzy over prisons in which specimens of canaries whistled their shrill chants. These canaries were a special feature of the 40th show. One, worth $4,000, had died on reaching the show because his water and food had spilled en route from Cleveland...
Interlude. On the New York Curb, Standard Oil of Indiana stock jumped to a new high of 103½, partly because of ill-founded rumors that Mr. Rockefeller Jr. and Col. Stewart were buying. Actually, the total turnover on the Curb was only one per cent of Standard Oil of Indiana stock; and the big warriors were not bothering with that tiny fraction. The stock dropped to 95 at the end of the week...
Banks. During 1928 the Bank of United States (Manhattan) accumulated by merger the following: Central Mercantile Bank & Trust Co. (six branches), Cosmopolitan Bank (four units), City Financial Corp. Last week it bought stock control of the Colonial Bank (16 branches), bringing its total resources to $260,000,000, its chain to 36 banking units...
...Philadelphia, the Integrity Trust Co. and the West Philadelphia Title and Trust Co. were merged to form an institution with total resources...