Word: busiest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colorado, Brighton is a neat little town with 2,715 population. Its air is crisp and cool, a lot of motors are seen on its streets. One of its busiest corners is at Main & Strong Streets. There in a two-story brick building is Farmers State Bank. In the back of the same building the Adams County Republican is published weekly. President of the bank is Herman Schloo, onetime cattle trader. L. D. Kranbeck, the butcher, and W. W. Gaunt, the lawyer, are directors. So is Elmer Jennerich who clerks in the hardware store...
...friends without even a prospectus, had the satisfaction of seeing the issue oversubscribed by 50%. His only compensation was the right to buy within five years 20,000 shares at $50, the offering price. Handsome, eloquent, self-assured, he seldom works less than twelve hours a day, is called Busiest Man in Detroit. But sometimes he goes South and plays golf...
...system commonly used today of flashing electric lights as a danger warning is not wholly successful. Busy miners often fail to notice the signals at once. Often an electric system will be disrupted by the very accident that occasions its use. The odor method is cheap, sure. Even the busiest miner will notice an unusually unpleasant smell...
...could, only say: "It is a kind of coordinating job. . . . The best we can do is to let various places know what others are doing. . . ." But at the desk they cleared for him in the Department of Commerce, Col. Woods gave a lively imitation of Washington's Busiest Man. His telephone rang at the rate of once every two minutes. Government officials from the Postmaster General down to the Chairman of the Shipping Board called to offer assistance. He hired Edward L. Bernays, smart Manhattan pressagent, to publicize the Government's work. Into newsreel microphones he preached...
Down and into Dallas's Love field, busiest airport of the southwest, slipped Coste's red sesquiplane "Point d'lnterrogation" last week at the end of a 1,700-mi. flight from New York. The mob of 20,000 rushed the lines of police and national guardsmen with as much mad enthusiasm as though the plane had flown direct from Paris. At length a wedge of guards forced a lane to the Southern Air Transport administration building where Mayor J. Waddy Tate and Attorney Cullen F. Thomas (for Governor Moody) offered the visitors the freedom of Dallas...