Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bond sales were to be taxed ?% (estimated yield, $25,000,000), real estate conveyances, 50¢ per $500 ($10,000,000), and future contracts in the produce markets 5¢ per $100 ($6,000,000). The security holder who escaped these levies by keeping his assets in a safety deposit box would have to pay 10% to the U. S. on the box's rental...
...prominence made his death a great scandal. He was chairman of A. M. Byers Co., Pittsburgh makers of wrought iron pipe, was connected with coke, docks and banking. He was a fine, widely known sportsman. In 1906 he won the national amateur golf championship. For years he kept a box at Forbes (baseball) Field, Pittsburgh. In England and the U.S. he had racing stables. He won trophies at trap shooting. He maintained homes at Pittsburgh, Southampton, L.I., and Aiken, S.C., often visited Palm Beach...
...dozen publishers' representatives crowded around a linotype machine in the Charlotte (N. C.) Observer plant one day last week. No operator sat at the keyboard which was covered by a boxlike apparatus. Into a slot in the box Inventor Buford L. Green, 25 years an Observer employe, fed a sheet of copy typed on translucent paper. Then he turned a switch. To the wonderment of onlookers, the lintoype proceeded to set a galley of accurate type...
...state that my invention is a double steel-plated box fitted about the pilot seat. It is about 2 ft. wide and 6 ft. long, specially riveted and equipped with shock absorbers. It has a door worked by levers so that as the machine is crashing a pull may close this door, hermetically sealing the pilot as if in a diving bell, with freedom from danger of fire or explosions. . . . Everyone knows that in a fall in a hydraulically operated elevator the force of the shock is absorbed as the elevator strikes the bottom of the shaft. . . . My plane might...
...series to be decided by the total number of goals scored. In a similar series, Major Frederic Mclaughlin's Chicago Black Hawks, a strong team which has played erratic .hockey this year, won, 1 to 0, against the -Toronto Maple Leafs, whose energetic manager, Connie Smythe, often occupies a box seat instead of the players' bench .because he considers it good luck...