Word: dustbin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...railroad juggler usually has the Interstate Commerce Commission shrieking "Drop it! Drop it!" from the front row. So occasionally there is a crash, and bits of dishes and lamp chimneys lie, Humpty-Dumpty like, on the stage floor. Last week the final fragments of one unfortunate juggle went dustbin-bound. The juggler was Leonor F. Loree, able head of Delaware & Hudson. His performance was called The Fifth Trunk Line. The broken pieces were 135,000 shares of Cotton Belt (St. Louis Southwestern R. R.). These shares were sold by the Kansas City Southern to a Manhattan holding company; the sale...
...anybody touch your book except yourself. If you find any one impertinent enough to venture, burn his foreword and drop him into the dustbin...