Word: desk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moreover I have on my desk a Brooks Brothers catalog, put out in the spring of 1908, with a photograph of a camel's hair ulster as part of its regular ready-made stock. I was sufficiently interested in the matter to try to verify my recollection that the material was indeed camel's hair and, with the co-operation of their Woolens Department, I ascertained that the piece-goods from which they were cut in those days came from Jaeger's, in Austria, were 100% pure camel's hair, and that Brooks Brothers were...
...been president, general manager and principal stockholder for 18 years. Before he reached his office he learned that none of the 115 employes in the seven-floor establishment was turning a hand in the interest of Yahr-Lange's prosperous wholesale trade. When he got to his desk, his chief accountant, his sales manager and his credit manager were waiting to tell...
...desk of overworked Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Reichsbank and Minister of Economics, there came last week a neatly typed memorandum signed by the presidents of a dozen large mortgage banks. The Nazi Government, they complained, scrabbling for every pfennig to pay for its fabulous armament program, has practically taken over their entire capital, making it impossible for them to issue mortgage loans, their chief source of income. If this practice is not stopped, some of the mortgage banks will be forced to close...
...they were. Inside lucky girls invited to the annual Poverty Ball received shiny frying pans as favors from a pile of 350. While couples syncopated to the tunes of Tasker Crossman, at the polished circulation desk, converted into a bar, free beer flowed aplenty. Dressed as a ragged girl, an ingenious graduate won the prize for the best costume--a loving cup fashioned out of a headlight, a hub cap, and two steel pipes...
Occasionally Hart Schaffner & Marx also helps out its suppliers. After the post-War inflation, American Woolen Mills went to the company cup in hand, requesting $200,000. Mr. Schaffner drummed his desk when asked what he thought about it, then said: "Times are pretty hard. Better let them have a million...