Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aluminum Co. simply went into furniture manufacture. First products to be exploited are office chairs-"easy chair comfort when you need it most." The material (upholstered) is as stout as mild steel and much lighter. The chairs, and other furniture already on sale, are coated in the exact grain of wood-mahogany, walnut, oak. When professional furniture manufacturers adopt aluminum (bought from Aluminum Co.) the company's executives will be happy. They do not want to fabricate goods-cooking utensils, motor casings, furniture, or anything else...
What causes the curious plateau of ice, two miles high and flat as a pancake, of which the South Pole appears to be the almost exact centre...
...reach the bank, Miss T- withdraws her deposit, hastens home to you with her purchases and a tidy roll of bills. If you were generous, you might allow her a 25% commission on her earnings before speeding her to another city. This, as a matter of fact, is the exact "racket" with which the National Surety Co. last week charged an organized swindling ring, employing 40 girls, operating in many a U. S. city. Recent arrests in Philadelphia provided the clue. Alarmed by 140,000 claims from stores in two years, the National Surety Co. pressed the investigation...
...yellow shop in East 57th Street, Manhatten, she displays many a cosmetic product made of water lilies. To the skeptical she offers a tour of inspection at the Long Island factory. Here she would exhibit row on row of half-opened water lilies, kept fresh until the exact moment when their essence may be impounded into creams, powders, lipsticks. Less aesthetic visitors could feast their eyes on tubs of cucumbers, great bunches of parsley leaves. Madame Rubinstein is justly proud of her products, noted for their active qualities, making the skin tingle. At her shop, min-istrants to beauty smile...
Arriving by air in Los Angeles last week for a series of eight concerts at the Hollywood Bowl, Albert Coates, famed English orchestra leader, delivered a note on his methods of conducting: "I find that by wearing huge white cuffs and using long sweeping motions, I am able to exact a greater sympathy and feeling from the musicians who are playing for me. . . . Musicians can follow shirt cuffs better than an almost invisible baton...