Word: depotism
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...Tripp's brother has succeeded him in office. Present Mayor Hugh ("Hercules") Tripp runs the Corner Drug Store, suggests that Rochester would make a fine mountain resort if Ickes will build a mountain. Mayor Hercules wrote President Roosevelt, asking a PWA grant to rebuild Rochester's abandoned depot. Last week he nursed a skinned elbow from reaching deep into his mailbox each morning for Roosevelt's answer. "So far I've found nothing in the box but a new bird's nest," said Tripp. "I say . . . it's an honor to be ignored...
Author, president and top dog of Railway Extension is a husky, happy-go-lucky, talkative automobile dealer named Ed O'Shea. Weary of turning away potential customers who came to his Lincoln, Neb. agency from the next-door bus depot and the nearby railroad station to ask whether they could rent a car for a few hours, Dealer O'Shea worked out Railway Extension, took it to the railroads. At present his agency operates its own cars (500) in some 35 cities, has contracts with local drive-yourself agencies in the others...
...witnessed a spectacle such as I have never seen in my life. First I heard the explosion of a single bomb. A few seconds later another explosion literally illuminated the entire sky over Sylt, and now explosion followed explosion. The bomb evidently had hit a munitions depot...
...substitute varsity back called two friends at Philadelphia's City Hall, begged them to get him "a soft berth" in the Army's Quartermaster Depot...
...Bundles for Britain" is a prominent U. S. agency whose products, all knitted, all for the British Navy, are distributed through a London depot supervised by Mrs. Winston Churchill. To date: five and a half tons of bundles. British War Relief Society, Inc., sanctioned by Great Britain's Consul General Godfrey Haggard, sends money, clothing, medical supplies for all the armed forces...