Word: carting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Depressed Leacock. Professor Stephen Butler Leacock, McGill's witty economist, intended to devote all his income to cancer research when Mrs. Leacock died of cancer. Commented he at the Physicians' meeting: "Subsidize cancer research? Why I couldn't subsidize a pony cart today. . . . That was two years ago. .. . You've heard of the Depression, haven't you? . . . No, I haven't any money for research...
...later he was released, went to Canada. Thereafter his flock grew numerous and prospered. Their canneries and granaries expanded. Their property became worth $20,000,000 even though Canada took back 360,000 of the now fruitful acres. Peter Verigin aged lustily, riding from village to village in a cart filled with beauteous singing maidens. This was shocking to his wife and his son, Peter II, who hastened back to Russia...
...Williams Nash, 68, who once owned 20 sheep and little else, whose fortune grew with the Industry until it was said to have made him 100 times a millionaire. Earl Hansen McCarty, 46, succeeded him as president. Mr. Nash began as a carriage-trimmer in the old Flint Road Cart Co. From 1912 through 1916 he presided over General Motors, having rehabilitated the old Buick Motor Car Co. He then formed his own company. Its home is in Kenosha, where also is the famed bedmaking Simmons Co. Scotch-descended Mr. Nash's specialty is cost-paring and Nash...
...summer. But last week they were selling as high as $5.15 a hundredweight against $3.40 on June 1. Because farmers have needed money so badly that they have sold their hogs right along it was expected that no sudden rush of pigs to market would upset the hog-cart. In Iowa where 13 million hogs are born and fattened every year, the rise from June 1 to last week's average price made a difference of $40,000,000 figuring each hog at 240 Ib. Another boon to hog farmers has been the low price of corn. It is generally...
...Bronx, when Officer Pierce Glynn ordered him to move his pushcart, Phil Cohen, cherry peddler, refused. Officer Glynn arrested Peddler Cohen, ordered him to push his cart to the police station. Peddler Cohen flatly refused. Sweating Officer Glynn trudged the pushcart to the police station. Peddler Cohen marching by his side blithely chanting: "Chay-reeeees! fresh chay-reeeees...