Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buxom, black-eyed Henrietta Koscianski, 19, a pantry maid in Cleveland's Statler Hotel, gave her starched white blouse a straightening pat and winked at one of the other girls as the young man who washed bar glasses and supplied cracked ice came on duty one night last week. "Say, Bob," she asked, "what's your last name...
...Mincing Lane pepper trading, margins are closely regulated on the New York Pepper Futures Market, daily fluctuations are limited to 1? per lb. per day and pepper stocks must be kept in licensed warehouses subject to inspection. The trading unit is 33,600 lb. of Lampong (Netherlands East Indies) black pepper, with Aleppy and Tellicherry (British India) as optional deliveries. Pepper prices are currently very low (6? per lb.) because last year's crop was the largest in history (87,000 tons were shipped) and there is now a glut of pepper on the market. But this...
...long-term investment or, currently, as a hedge against inflation, main pepper purchasers are the grinders, who maintain "spice mills" all over the U. S. Packers and canners take the balance of the 18,000 tons used annually by the U. S. Not to be confused with black or white pepper is red pepper, cayenne or paprika, which comes from a different plant, has small volume, little speculative value, is not traded on pepper exchanges...
Seidman & Seidman's figures on comparative sales of different types of furniture showed that U. S. citizens were inclined to spend their first furniture money on upholstered chairs, studio couches, etc., putting makers of upholstered furniture in the black ink a year ahead of the industry as a whole. Their aggregate operating profit of 3.07% on sales in 1935 was more than doubled last year. Second best showing was made by manufacturers of novelty and specialty goods, who also made an operating profit, 2.15% in 1935, increased it to 4.86% in 1936. Laggards were the manufacturers of "case goods...
...contrast with similar presses of the past, such as the Black Sun Press conducted in Paris by the late Henry Grew ("Harry") Crosby, New Directions professes a social purpose. Editor Laughlin believes with I. A. Richards and most other competent critics that language, like a swimming pool, needs to be constantly renewed and purified for the pleasure and health of those who use it. If stagnant associations and clichés can be broken up in people's minds they will be more imaginative and receptive to ideas of social change. Says Editor Laughlin: "It is the word worker...