Word: vastnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...real creator of the new gold lira. He is Count Guiseppe Volpi di Misurata. Citizens of the U. S. remember the business-like fashion in which he negotiated the funding of Italy's War debt to the U. S. (TIME, Nov. 23, 1925). Last week he revealed the vast credits which he has built up abroad to enable Italy to defend her new currency against fluctuation on international exchange. Said he: "The Bank of Italy wishes to secure the collaboration of international bankers?just as the Bank of England did when the British Government decided to return to the gold...
...companies that manufacture wooden or sheet metal furniture and sell the pieces through chains of retail furniture stores. A $30,000,000 consolidation, this was the greatest in the history of furniture and allied industries. Milwaukee Dairies. To make ice cream, cheese, butter and other milk products on a vast scale and to sell them in Wisconsin, northern Illinois, and the northern peninsula of Michigan-the Waukesha Milk Co., the Blommer Ice Cream Co., and the Bendfelt Ice Cream Co., all of Milwaukee, last week consolidated their interests as the Wisconsin Creameries...
...buyer was obliged to pay $852 for a share, and Mr. Sheaffer sent word to stockholders that they had best assemble in Fort Madison at once to change their capitalization from the 9,734 shares to 20 times that amount (194,680). The change is to distribute their vast profits in a thinner, more seemly layer...
...George H. Doran Co.; the first to bear their new stamp of Doubleday, Doran & Co. It was written by Booth Tarkington, the title Claire Ambler. It was bravely bound in special parchment paper; first sample of a luxurious edition published to signalize properly the inauguration of a vast new power in U. S. publishing...
...Canada. The situation a few years ago would have induced a rate war between transportation companies. Twenty years ago such a general war took place. First class fares between New York and Liverpool fell to $22.00 a person-but for a very short time. With trans-Atlantic travel as vast as it is now the companies are too discreet to initiate such a contest...