Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...partnership" between the President and every employer from the corner grocer to the biggest tycoon was to be voluntary (no law existed to force it upon all industry & business) and run until Jan. 1. Approval of regular trade codes before that date would release all "partners" in the subscribing industry. Excepting household servants and farm hands, all employes were divided into two groups: 1) those who worked with their hands in factories and shops; 2) those who worked with their heads in offices and stores. Employers of Group 1 were asked not to work their help more than eight hours...
...building in which Jordan Marsh's Men's Store is located, at the corner of Washington and Summer Street, was one of those appealed. The building, which is under long-term contract, is assessed...
...fancier of Granby, Mass., and discovered cancer in a progeny. Professor Slye at once began to concentrate on the inheritance of cancer. Her laboratory now is a three-story, greystone house, at the west border of the University of Chicago campus, at No. 5825 Drexel Boulevard. Down at the corner is the new Lying-In Hospital. Across the street at No. 5822 is a smaller greystone house on the first floor of which she lives with her sister Katherine Alden and her jolly assistant, Edith Farrar, who speaks with a strong Southern accent and is very fond of The Nation...
History In Epping Upland, England three months ago, George Poole rounded a corner on his motorcycle, collided with a lorry, had his arm broken. Last week George Poole rounded the same corner on the same motorcycle, collided with the same lorry, had the same arm broken in the same place...
...charges 25%. In the Chicago pit, wheat for May delivery touched $1.27¼ a bushel. But wheat was not the sensation of the pit. Rye outdid it. Rye (unfavored by Government restriction measures) touched $1.08½ for December delivery-jumped 23? a bushel in a week. Talk of a corner in rye by Dr. Edward A. Crawford (TIME, June 19) was resumed. Also there was talk of a rye shortage due to 1) expected use of more rye flour in bread as wheat prices rise; 2) expected large demand for rye by distillers...