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...could put up a new batch of moonshine by the time his wife got out of jail. Red Currie got number 45F8575, a pair of stylish Sizzle Pants for $3.65. Sylvester Merrick, colored, got a new clothesline. Ira Pirtle ordered some rubber collars ("easily cleaned with a damp cloth,") number 33F8244, at three for 60?. The Widow Holcomb sent for a bottle of Youth Tone black hair dye, 8F3882, for $2.29. -Behind these orders lay the aspirations, tastes, customs, needs of a drowsy, mismanaged, tough Oklahoma country town that boasted a third-class post office, a weekly paper, a municipal...
...pulse. The spectators closed in. At 5:44½ a. m. physicians pronounced Bethea dead. With a yell the spectators charged from every side, eager hands clawed at the black death hood. In a moment it was torn to shreds. The lucky ones stuffed the bits of black cloth proudly into their pockets. Slowly the crowd straggled away...
...will not complete their run until sometime in September. Donnelley's has four-color presses in which special chemicals dry the ink quickly, machines which wrap and label 8000 books an hour. Five hundred girls do nothing but hand-work- inserting color pages and swatches of cloth. One girl can stick on 1000 swatches an hour-about one every three seconds. In binding the books no stitching is used; the pages are stuck together as they whiz through a glueing machine...
...that customers may submit its cloth samples to close scrutiny, Sears supplies a magnifying glass with every catalog...
...market for rayons grew. More & more cotton mills were opened in the South, with a tremendous competitive advantage in labor and freight costs. Amoskeag's sales fell from $56,000,000 in 1920 to $28,000,000 in 1928; its production from 223,000,000 yd. of cloth in 1912 to 100,000,000 yd. in 1928. In 1927, when it looked as if Amoskeag would have to close, a company shake-up gave the job of saving the company to Treasurer Frederic Christopher Dumaine...