Word: zenith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like most other U. S. businesses, Curtis Publishing hit its earnings zenith in 1929, when it reported a net of $21,534,265, an all-time high for any publishing enterprise. Holders of its 7% preferred (of which 722,714 of 900,000 shares are now held by the public) got their dividends as they had for years. Holders of its common got $8 in dividends, felt they had a fine investment in a stock which was selling at $132 before the October crash. But by the depth of the depression in 1932 the dividend on common had dropped...
...course planned by the Divinity School should be welcomed by the College with open arms. But that this course heralds a return of religion to any part of its former importance in education is not likely. True, President Eliot's theory of specialization seems to have passed its zenith, but even though broader fields of concentration may come in the near future, there is no sign that theology will rank among them. Social and intellectual forces have decreed otherwise...
...purpose, convivial but shrewd, he burst into the automotive industry nearly 30 years ago with the first practical self-starter. Today few U. S. automobiles drive the roads, few airplanes fly the skies, that do not have his gadgets in them: Bendix starters, radios, brakes, Stromberg as well as Zenith carburetors, Scintilla magnetos...
...revolutionary cry of equality-even equality in the matter of dying for one's country-which replaced the professional soldier with the soldier drawn from public lists. Napoleon Bonaparte, "Son of the Revolution," believed that "God marches with the biggest battalions"; in 1813, at the zenith of his success, he commanded a conscripted army of 1,140,000 men. In the wake of Napoleonic conquests most countries of Europe adopted conscription until, in the World War, some 50,000,000 men were compulsorily drafted into service...
Decline & Fall. Hearst's inevitable dissolution was inherent in his career; now that that career is ending, its turning point stands out. In 1922 Hearst was at his zenith as a publisher. He owned 20 newspapers in 13 of the largest U. S. cities, with Universal Service and INS to flash them worldwide news, King Features Syndicate to dish out comics and boilerplate philosophy, the scandalsheet American Weekly to boost Sunday circulation into the multimillions. He had a string of magazines, a newsreel, a motion-picture company. He had the world's highest paid stable of writers...