Word: basketeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years President Litchfield has personally done Goodyear's rubber shopping, still gives it 20 minutes to an hour a day. He carries the industry's biggest market basket, for Goodyear buys about 14 2/7% (the United States from 30% to 50%) of the world's crude rubber. With only about 10% of Goodyear's requirements produced by Goodyear's own plantations, he must gamble more heavily than his competitors on war or peace as well as recovery or depression when he goes to market. In the spring of 1937, when commodity prices threatened...
...Summer is biggest pickle sales period. Reason: picnics and basket lunches...
...admissions; because its people know no other work and their talents are social assets; because they bring cheer to millions, and give benefit shows to relieve the distress of others. At her conclusion Miss Bankhead broke into tears. Next day she sent the committee a vast basket of roses...
...oldsters got so pepped up that they heaped $3,500 cash into a basket as a starter for Dr. Townsend's radio campaign fund. They chanted...
Published this week was a new, scrupulous biography* with Thornbury sieved out by 35 years of patient research (ended last March by Biographer Finberg's death) in contemporary records and in the previously unstudied "Turner wastepaper basket," eleven boxes of notes and sketchbooks preserved in the National Gallery. The figure that emerges is a businesslike professional with a shrewd grey eye and the weather-beaten taciturnity of a shipmaster, a lover of open sea, open sky and the money that enabled him to be independent and solitary. In reproving Thornbury's tales of early love affairs...