Word: adds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While Babe Ruth was pondering fame, both major leagues, to all appearances, were functioning as bravely as ever last week. With July 4 and the annual All-Star game comfortably past, mid-season gave experts a good excuse to add up chances in the pennant races...
...into very thin slices 1 onion, 1 small carrot, 1 stick of celery. Melt 1 oz. butter in a stewpan and fry with vegetables for a few minutes without browning. Add 2½ lb. tomatoes, cut into slices, and cook for a few more minutes. Add 2 pints of water, small clove of garlic and bunch of herbs...
...Then bring to the boil, season to taste and simmer gently until all vegetables are cooked. Remove garlic and herbs, and rub through fine hair-sieve. Return to clean stewpan, correct for seasoning. Bring slowly to the boil, while thickening with a little cornflour mixed with cold water, then add a pinch of castor sugar and serve with crouton of fried bread. A little seed tapioca may be added as a garnish, but must be added and cooked before the soup is thickened...
...pattern sales did not go up during the Depression as they had done in every previous business collapse. Though Butterick is still one of the big four pattern makers,* its sales sloped off from a peak of $16,000,000 in 1921 to $6,000,000 in 1933. To add to Butterick's troubles, Delineator advertising began dropping late in 1930. Its circulation is now 1,700,000 against more than 2,400,000 in 1931. Last January hard-pressed Butterick, invoking Section 776 of the Bankruptcy Act, proposed a plan for reorganization which was last week the subject...
With some pride, the New York Public Library last week announced that it had just received as a gift an arrant forgery to add to its notable collection of autographs. The document, purporting to be a brief letter in the handwriting of Benjamin Franklin, was gladly accepted by the library, for, according to Manhattan Autograph Expert Thomas F. Madigan, it was a fine specimen of the handiwork of Robert Spring, one of the most notorious autograph forgers in U. S. history. While hundreds of unwitting collectors have cabinets filled with Robert Spring autographs, wiseacres are willing to pay large sums...