Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to Governor Martin of Oregon, the southwestern corner of that State "has greater potential values than any other undeveloped section of the U. S." Crammed with 4,000-foot mountain chains, this wilderness has only three connections with civilization-a highway up the coast and 50 miles inland a parallel highway and Southern Pacific R. R. line. Between are said to lie rich deposits of chrome, copper, gold, iron, coal, limestone and platinum beneath an evergreen blanket of several billion feet of virgin timber. To exploit this domain has been a local dream for 50 years but only...
...York Stock Exchange were to expel its biggest member firm, the act would be comparable to what happened last week on the Chicago grain exchange. Charging that it deliberately manipulated prices and attempted to corner corn futures last September, the Chicago Board of Trade expelled from membership Cargill Grain Co. of Illinois and its three top officers. Cargill Grain of Illinois is a subsidiary of Cargill Inc., generally accepted as the largest grain elevator and merchandising enterprise in the U. S. Snapped the Board of Trade: "Today's action is final and is not subject to review...
With the Fourth of July just around the corner, it is high time that steps were taken to really celebrate the birthday of the United States. Away with picnicking, motoring, listening to political rallies, holding family reunions, and other more or less painful ways of getting killed! Let Mallinckrodt Laboratory step into the breach by advocating something for the Mallinckrodtians to advocate. What will it be? Why, let the Mallinckrodtians advocate fireworks...
...played a man $2000 a year to mow grass in front of Lehman Hall, which was then a stable. The man's name was Harvard, and he had a square wooden leg, and consequently when he came to the end of the lawn, he could only turn a sharp corner. These sharp corners formed a square, which came to be called "Harvard's Square...
...Richard Wagner, you are a great man," squawked the well-trained parrot from the corner of the room. The genius nodded approval. "The bird must be right." In the future he would do greater things: he would build his own opera house, acquire wealth, lampoon the critics, devastate his enemies. But for the present he must evade the enemy. Quickly packing his most valuable possessions, he slipped quietly downstairs and fled from the City of Dresden...