Word: closings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bookstore were to close, this whole range of "progressive" social and economic information would no longer be quickly available to students, according to the proprietors of the shop...
...ever since, will compete almost exclusively in the free-style sprint races this year, thereby fulfilling Coach Ulen's need for a fast sprinter and his own desire to swim on his face for a while. During his first year in the pool Art negotiated the 50 in very close to 24 seconds flat, and while his backstroke 100's which at one time approached the 1:02 mark are valuable, his sprinting ability will probably be more in demand this season...
Since 1935 there has been a steady rise in the number of students concentrating in Government so that during the past three years Government has been the second largest field with English dropping to third place and History a close fourth, the survey indicates...
...Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma lie the richest lead and zinc beds in the U. S. There a score of "TriState" towns house 100,000 miners and their families. Typical is Zincville in Ottawa County, Okla. Its battered shacks, pieced together out of tar paper and packing cases, nestle close to glittering mountains of "chat," or quartz dust, the "offal of the mines."On blustery days, wind whips and swirls the stinging quartz dust through the streets and into the houses. Constant inhalation of quartz dust causes silicosis...
Hypercompetitive, bubble-riding, style-mad is the $100,000,000 U. S. millinery industry. The Federal Trade Commission last week published a study of its scrambled distribution methods. Prime thesis of the report: chain and syndicate distributors (who combine the functions of wholesaler and retailer) handle close to half of the total trade, are not the pirates that manufacturing milliners think them: "With a better understanding the manufacturer will come to realize that he has not been the victim of oppression by the syndicate...