Word: drawerfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Danville, Ind., two bandits entered the Thompson Drug Co. store, gave Clerk A. G. Kelleher a $20 bill, asked for change. When he opened the cash drawer they seized its contents, $11, and fled, leaving Clerk Kelleher with the $20 bill...
...Harvard has assembled a collection of trivia on subjects ranging from African hotels and earthquakes in Mexico to Theodore Roosevelt and the hoop--skirt. to the average reader they will appear as nothing more than a few sketches which Mr. Flanders might have discover by accident in a forgotten drawer of his desk then sent off to the publisher in a moment of weakness. To most of us they are lacking in interest: one might as well read Christopher Motley's collected essays and be done with them...
...filing system for thousands of cards was operated by one person with pulleys and buttons. A multigraphing machine imitated anyone's handwriting. A desk had a radio in the drawer...
...Result. Five thousand Saxon jobless promptly volunteered. Many were of the class called "loafers on the Dole" (an average German dole-drawer draws two marks [48?] per day). Others were too young to draw dole payments, or disqualified. Out of all the clamoring 5,000 volunteers (many white-collar men and former clerks) the Government selected 120 Saxons for its experimental platoons, sent them...
...President James Augustine Farrell, onetime wire drawer, dictates the financial policies of United States Steel Corp. no more than did the late great Judge Elbert Henry Gary. The Ruler of Steel is its finance committee. Member John Pierpont Morgan was absent in England when Steel's finance committee met last week in the unadorned Steel Corporation offices at No. 71 Broadway. But present were his partner Thomas William Lament, Committee Chairman Myron Charles Taylor and Banker George Fisher Baker Jr. Just as in 1921 the finance committee lowered wages over the protest of Judge Gary, last week in effect...