Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plight. The White House seemed a long way from John Farmer's withered little acres but he was hopeful. His corn was gone. His well was dry. His pasture was a tinder box. His cows were hungry. His vegetable patch was a mass of brown weeds. His supply of cash was dangerously low. He already owed the county bank more than he could pay this year or next. Typhoid fever had broken out nearby. John Farmer faced a bad winter...
...Toronto, Ottawa and Niagara, and with nine English and Canadian news correspondents aboard. Freight and express revenues estimated at $500,000 had to be rejected in accordance with Air Ministry orders. Only excess cargo was a bunch of peonies for King George from Viscount Willingdon, governor-general; and a box of Canadian peaches for the Prince of Wales from Prime Minister Ferguson of Ontario. The homeward flight was uneventful until the second night when severe headwinds were accompanied by a deluge which overflowed the ballast tanks, penetrated the fabric, sloshed into the cabins, put the electric stove out of commission...
...prospered to the extent of paying 25,000% in dividends to their 50-odd investors. Most famed member of the group is M. Zographoo, whose extravagance is voitures de grand sport (fast automobiles) and whose reputation for honesty is only equalled by his deftness with a baccarat "shoe" (dealing box...
...Looking thoughtful and serious, he jabbed Berg with sewing-machine lefts and crossed him with hard right-hand punches to the jaw. The cockney came in milling and tied him up, battered at his ribs in the clinches without getting past his countering elbows. Whenever Chocolate was free to box he scored points but Berg kept on top of him aggressively. Liking Chocolate for his buoyancy, his nerve, and the crafty speed of his wedge-shaped brown body, spare as an impressionist charcoal drawing, the crowd delighted in his onslaughts, scored six of the ten rounds to him, booed when...
...White: "Forget it, old-timer . . . and help us clean up this rotten situation which has made ticket distribution a 'racket.' " Producer White was adamant. He threatened to start a move among producers that would finish the League, namely, to get all tickets back where they belonged-in box offices. To Attorney General Hamilton Ward of New York went Bernard H. Sandier and William Russell Willcox,* retained as counsel by 23 nonLeague brokers, to procure an order dissolving the League. Their charge: the League constitutes a monopoly operating in restraint of trade. They illustrated the social usefulness of small...