Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Telegraph officials denied that they would make their telegrams conform to the rules laid down by the valentine manufacturers in their code...
...many people know it, but this is an epoch-making Valentine Day. It is the last time that one will have the choice of fantastic shapes and sizes. Next year, the dimensions of the cards will be set by the valentine manufacturer's code and there will probably be only four or five standard sizes...
...laying in a stock of the old ones this year for my personal use. I figure that all the cards under the code will probably be square. Personally, I like the silhouettes with arms that wiggle...
...noisily boastful about their Scollay Square standards, the same would be as obvious as dirty finger nails. No one disputes their preference for bawds, flasks and vacuums. It is easy to believe that their taste is genuine. By the same token one can readily admit the looseness of their code of business ethics. If they were on the other end of a Government contract or any other contract, they would bear watching. This would be taken for granted and due credit, without reserve, be given them for tricky cleverness. No cry would be raised that they were hypocritical...
...Encouraged by steelmen and not denied by motor makers is a persistent rumor that other automobile companies will take a tip from Henry Ford and buy or build their own steel plants. Steel's biggest customers resent the fact that under the steel code they no longer get discounts on their orders. Last week it was no sooner discovered that General Motors was dickering for an option on Corrigan-McKinney Steel Co., than it was learned that negotiations had been dropped...