Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Towards his petty criminals John McIntyre shows benevolent amusement. Boys, he implies, will be boys. Sam was just a good-looking, friendly kid selling pop in a ball park until Art, who knew his way around, took him aside and showed him a few angles. Then he went up fast...
A billion and a quarter in silver is approximately one million 1,000-oz. bars, each ounce worth $1.29 at the Government's statutory price, or 43? on the metal market. A thousand ounces is 62½ lb. To move a million such bars, a fleet of trucks was...
As might be expected, a sailing enthusiast as hearty as Author Villiers is all for it. In The Making Of a Sailor he expresses his enthusiasm in a few pages of miscellaneous facts about schools and 191 photographs of sailing vessels: These show cadets at work, studying navigation, shooting the...
¶ Bitter Economist Michel Alphendery, a communist sympathizer, who says of his job: "We're riders of the storm: all of us together with him in this phantom bank, built on misery, shining out of mire, solid in an earthquake, soundproof in thunder, a living lightning conductor: an accident...
Inclined despite his democratic manners to be a playboy, a first recognition of social inequality came to Franklin Roosevelt from seeing the New York poor on excursion steamers as he sailed past on his yacht. The first really good lick destiny got in was his marriage to serious, social-minded...