Word: diamonded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however, purchasers fail to meet their weekly payments, their interest in their diamond "lapses." and when "lapsation" takes place the money previously paid in becomes profit for the Standard Diamond Co. Mr. Johnston began to worry about what would happen to the interest payments if the "lapsations" began to fall off. Perturbed, he called the District Attorney's office and the Better Business Commission. It was at this point that Mr. Stillings reappeared, ornamented his colleague's desk...
Consider, for example, a scene which last week took place in the offices of a concern called Standard Diamond Co., Manhattan. President of the company is one Peter B. Johnston. Manager of the company is one George E. Stillings. On the president's desk is a large brass nameplate: "P. B. Johnston...
...drapes the nameplate with black crepe. He puts before it a floral wreath. He adds a placard reading: "Financially Dead." To reporters Mr. Stillings remarks: "Mr. Johnston's conduct has been extremely foolish and I intend to take severe measures with him." As one would suspect, Standard Diamond Co. deals in diamonds. Its patrons agree to pay $1 a week for 100 weeks, at the end of which period they receive a diamond worth $175. If they pay $2 a week for 100 weeks they get two diamonds, worth $350. The company reserves the right to make a cash...
...nostril. Heads are flat and triangular, necks thin, bodies stout, tails short, eyes with elliptical pupils like a cat's. Fangs fold back against the roof of the mouth. A single row of scales runs along the belly. The biggest U. S. snake is the eastern diamond-back rattler, which grows to nine feet...
...tools. The men on one side were employed by the Carboloy Co., General Electric subsidiary; on the other by Thomas Prosser & Son, for 75 years U. S. selling agents for Krupp. Both Krupp and General Electric have independently developed similar metals. Krupp calls its widia (from wie diamant, "like diamond"); General Electric calls its carboloy...