Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increase of $3 a car, regardless of distance of shipment, on coal, certain ores, stone, gravel, posts, lumber, box wood, furnace slag...
...Chapman was forced to cry for more Government help (TIME, June 29). In reply, the Shipping Board directed that the U. S. Lines be sold to the highest bidder. The deadline on Aug. 13 found two sealed envelopes in Shipping Board's mail box. One was a $3,000,000 offer from a brilliant young combination called International Mercantile Marine-Roosevelt. The other had come from irrepressible Banker Chapman who had found financial allies in the Pacific-the Robert ("Round the World") Dollars, the San Francisco Fleishhackers and Steamshipman Kenneth Dawson of Portland. Their bid topped the rival offer...
...Joseph Leidy, socialite wife of a Philadelphia doctor, William Carl Hammer, an importer, and his wife, Kathryn O'Gorman Hammer, daughter of a bandmaster and herself an able slide-trombonist. The Hammers interested Mrs. Leidy in a local opera venture; Mrs. Leidy interested her friends who bought boxes. The Hammers became managers, announced six performances for the first season. Mr. Hammer attended to the box-office while Mrs. Hammer persuaded artists to sing on a co-operative basis, borrowed sets and properties, concocted on her own sewing-machine cheesecloth costumes for Aïda, Carmen, Otello. Miraculously the first...
...friend Joe Forecast in the Press Box last Saturday and we had a little talk about the week's games. I'm afraid the old boy, whose mind is a bit weak these days, may have influenced me by his sentimental appeals to his former "greatness." He used to be considered great until people realized the power of oriental methods in prognosticating, no doubt about that...
...Fool" ranks with "Abie's Irish Rose" and "Lightning" in box office records and outside of New York has probably created more discussion than any other play by an American author. Shortly after its run, Pollock toured the country, delivering 1063 speeches in the course of 13 months. He has been heard in many colleges and clubhouses throughout the country...