Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stranger joined the line. After an hour's shuffling forward, he was given a sticky handful of some noisome stuff. He asked the surly clerk for change, was told there was no change in the store. He patiently asked for wrapping paper. The clerk jeered, "Afraid you'll get your hands soiled?" The stranger asked, "Where is the manager?" The clerk handed him a piece of newspaper to wrap his handful, told him the manager was "upstairs somewhere." Upstairs he went, gingerly hold- ing his handful. Clerks sent him from department to department for more than an hour...
...young Pittsburgh law clerk Ernest Marland watched the founding of the Mellon fortune at sheriff's sales. In 1908 in Oklahoma he founded his own fortune when he struck a gusher on Willie-Cries-for-War's land. He built most of Ponca City, presented Oklahoma with Bryant Baker's heroic "Pioneer Woman" which stands at the entrance to his estate...
...grew weary of being a clerk and counting nickels and dimes. I wanted to deal in millions like my two idols. I wanted to go into business for myself. I wanted to be my own boss and make millions." When Motorman Dodge died, Cromwell organized a company to finance retail sales of Dodge automobiles. The company had a turnover of $30,000,000 in three years, was sold at a profit after James Cromwell persuaded the widows of the two Dodge brothers to dispose of the automobile company to Chrysler for $160,000,000-biggest cash sale in Wall Street...
...airplane carrying National Recovery Administrator Hugh Samuel Johnson from St. Louis to Washington was forced down by a storm in Dayton, Ohio. Because the General had no baggage the clerk of the first hotel to which he went was suspicious, refused to give him a room unless he paid in advance. Administrator Johnson rumbled his opinion of hotel & clerk, stormed off to another hotel...
Snug in their beds, guests slept in Brno's Hotel Europe last week, little recking that a clerk named Knop lay awake in a room on the second floor. With him were his mistress, Irma Zwiestlbauer, and a small child. Clerk Knop was determined to die and he did not care in what company. He set off a bomb of ecrasite, an Austrian shell explosive. Besides gratifying Knop's desire it split the hotel from basement to roof, blew out the front of four stories sent 180-ft. streamers of flame into the air, injured 80 and gave...