Word: barrels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second in importance only to its divorce rush is Reno's mayoral election this week. Seeking re-election on a liberal platform is Mayor Edward Ewing Roberts who advocates placing at each & every street corner a barrel of whiskey with a pull-in dipper chained to it to drive out bootleggers. Realtor Milburn Gregory seeks the office on a platform stressing Reno's "scenic and health attractions." Howard Doyle has the support of ministers and a conservative element opposed to legalized gambling and easy divorce...
...face set, his eyes unseeing, pacing down the hot pavement toward the tape in front of the Athletic Association. Would it be Clarence De Mar, 42-year-old school teacher, who has won seven times in 20 years? Would it be Karl Koski, the iron-legged Finn, or barrel-chested Whitey Michaelson who won the Manhattan A. A. U. marathon last fortnight? The crowd discussed its favorites and perspired, for the temperature was 77°. The blazing spring sun would do the runners no good...
Temperature. The chart of the U. S. oil giant's condition is a price chart. In California last week came the third drastic price-cut in three weeks. High-grade California oil sells in Los Angeles now for 35? a barrel against $1.48 at the start of the year. Mid-Continent oil is selling at 53? against 81? at the first of the year. Last week gasoline stocks reached a new high for the year of 47,444,000 bbl. against 42,818.000 bbl. Jan. 1 and 55,239,000 bbl. a year ago. Refineries were operating...
...wonders why he gave up a profitable law practice some 15 years ago to become the fixture he is at Cornell. When he meets with Book & Bowl, Cornell's carousing literary society, he reads verses, funny monologs. Once a year the literary society meets as his guest, drinks a barrel of Scranton's best beer, eats Rym Berry's famed imported Bavarian pretzels...
...Hull speech was too tame, too polite a protest for Arkansas' barrel-chested, full-blooded Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson. His face as red as his necktie, he leaped to the platform, began an address of his own. He waved his arms, shook his fists at Chairman Raskob. He thundered and bellowed. He worked himself up into a passion of dissent. Cried...