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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Total U. S. typewriter exports were $18,020,495 in 1925, have shown a steady increase to $21,010,890 last year. Great Britain took $3,250,018 worth, despite intensive propaganda that "British Machines are Best." France came second with a purchase of $1,971,617, Argentina took $1,020,702, and Canada followed close with $1,000,944. Six other countries each took between $600,000 and $900,000 worth: Italy, Germany, British India, Brazil, Spain and Czechoslovakia...
When newly-elected, oldish President Samuel Matthews Vauclain of Philadelphia's gigantic Baldwin Locomotive Works sent $6,965,000 worth of locomotives on credit in July 1919, to the War-torn infant Republic of Poland, his board of directors thought keen level-headed "Sam" Vauclain had forsaken business for his favorite role of philanthropist. They worried. All Europe was financially unbalanced by post War deflation. Poland was still at desperate grips with the Red Army of new Bolshevik Russia. Furthermore, the Baldwin Locomotive Works was at the dangerous stage of turning from Wartime manufactures, productive...
...racing season had opened. The fat figure of Harry ("Hot Dog") Stevens seemed to grow fatter as he turned hungry people away from his race track club. The red face of Edward J. Tranter, potent Saratoga auctioneer, seemed to grow redder as he thought of the $5,000,000 worth of horse flesh that had arrived. Names of Whitney. Riddle, Widener, Vanderbilt, Sinclair, dutifully took their places on the "boards" as the week advanced. On shaded streets leading to the track rolled yellow, open-faced hacks with fringed awnings, four-in-hands, victorias, still the choice of many a Saratoga...
...owns $50,000 worth of U. S. Steel common, he can readily and speedily realize on his holdings. For his shares have an instant market...
Then, when a whiteman forger and thief stole $140,000 of State money and was pardoned after serving four years of a five-year term Editor Harris wrote: "Mule Hicks, an ignorant 17-year-old Negro, stole a mule worth less than $100. He was sentenced to serve twenty years at hard labor. After serving twelve years he was still in the chain gang, and as a result of his treatment attempted to escape. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to hang, although not a witness saw the killing. Mule Hicks is a Negro. Who cares...