Word: chose
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Books, July 4 issue, in the story of the present bestsellers, TIME states that the two best-selling books of the week at The Emporium's bookstore in San Francisco were Heidi Grows Up and Ferdinand. I assume that you chose The Emporium as a store whose sales are representative of San Francisco as a whole, i.e., Heidi Grows Up and Ferdinand were San Francisco's best-sellers last fortnight...
...given six months in jail, told by Judge Homer A. Fuller that they need not pay a cent or serve a day if they called off their strike. As astounded by this remarkable punishment as attorneys in Judge Fuller's courtroom, C. I. O.'s Carey appealed, chose imprisonment but was released on bond, announced: "I was faced with six months in jail . . . [or] a lifetime with my conscience. . . ." This week an arbitration board set up by Governor Kraschel proposed that Maytag take back all hands at full pay, pending negotiation. Maytag having refused, back-to-workers went...
...estimated at 967,000,000 but, will be the second largest on record, and Commodity Credit Corp. has set aside $100,000,000 for the loans. Purpose of the loans is to let farmers keep their wheat off the market until they can get a better price. Secretary Wallace chose the minimum rate permitted by the 1938 AAA, but wheat prices on exchanges promptly sagged as brokers figured the loan might actually turn out to be the maximum price, as occurred with last year's 9? cotton loans...
From Yakutsk, Siberia, his CQ (calling all stations) carried 4,837 miles to Hermosa Beach, Calif. During earlier tests from Wichita, Kans., it was heard in Honolulu, 4,226 miles away. Altering the length of the harmonically operated antenna gave his radio beam virtually any direction he chose. When the antenna trailed its rubber wind sock at full length, the signal was concentrated straight on the spot to which the plane's nose pointed, straight back in the opposite direction. This gave maximum performance down the two most desirable paths, forward to the next destination, back to the last...
...South had its own formula for the ideal man: a scholar, a gentleman and a judge of good whiskey. This triple ideal, said he, is still an admirable goal for education. Solomon, he reminded Georgia's graduates, so pleased the Lord when he chose the gift of wisdom that he received riches also, 700 wives, 300 concubines, and "a prolonged visit from the most famous house guest of ancient history, the luscious and magnificent Queen of Sheba...