Word: would
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most U. S. businessmen, however, believed that the price of Ford cars was reduced so that they would still be attractive to small investors who lost in the stock market crash crisis. Great was their admiration for timely and brilliant advertising...
...Steel. On the day on which its three month option would have expired United States Steel Corp. last week announced that it had purchased Columbia Steel Corp., Los Angeles, whose assets total $38,694,416. For this it paid approximately $46,630,000 in common stock...
...Southern and Midwest nickels, dimes, quarters often went to the F. & W. Grand 5-to-25 Cent Stores. Sometimes too they were spent at the Isaac Silver & Brothers Stores (5-to-$1.00). If any Southerner or Midwesterner were ever in doubt as to which of the chain stores he would rather patronize, that difficulty was removed last week when the two merged. Their combined gross business last year: $31,000,000; combined number of stores: 140. There are 554 Kresge stores, 1,802 Woolworth...
Moderator McAfee was not exploding a bombshell. Last May the annual General Assembly at St. Paul, Minn, voted to send to some 300 Presbyteries three "overtures" to be voted upon. If the majority vote in the majority of the Presbyteries was in favor, changes suggested by the overtures would become effective in May 1930. Said the overtures: Shall women be ordained as lay evangelists? elders? ministers...
...lenders of the canvases to the exhibition included Editor Frank Crowninshield of smartchart Vanity Fair, Businessman-Collector Chester Dale, Dealers Paul Reinhardt and John F. Kraushaar, Capitalist Sam Adolph Lewisohn. They gave an aura of respectability to the exhibition which might have amused the little, consumptive painter. People who would not have been seen talking with him now pay $20,000 for his canvases, eulogize him over their teacups as a great genius. For in his day Modigliani was the butt of ribaldry. Derisive fingers were pointed at the elongated necks, piggy eyes, distorted sloping shoulders, characteristic of the Modigliani...