Word: exclaiming
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...Herty had a speaking appointment at Niagara Falls before a section of the American Chemical Society. There he sped to exclaim: "Perhaps the most sensational fact about this new product is its strength and light weight. It has a burst strength of 10 to 12 lb. per sq. in., compared with only 6 to 10 lb. for the standard newsprint. It is a 30-lb. paper, while the standard is 32. This means that newspapers, if able to buy it, would receive 6.66% more sheets per ton and their mailing costs by weight would be 6.66% less...
...Mills the Treasury has been a cold storage plant. . . . The new secretary has been at ease, quite natural and simple, utterly free of official pomp and pose and has made a tremendous hit with everybody." Well aware of how the country was taking him, Secretary Woodin was moved to exclaim: "I'm stunned in admiration at the co-operation of the people. . . . We see light. This thing is not going to pieces...
...testified that 20 billions in securities had been floated in ten years, of which something under one billion have been in "difficulties." Banker Mitchell's salary is $35,000 a year. In 1927-29 he made nearly $3,500,000 extra, fact which led rich Senator Couzens to exclaim that "unreasonable salaries and bonuses led to unsound banking and unsound securities sales...
...Received from Utah's Smoot. as the result of a dare by Maryland's Tydings, a bill limiting compensation to veterans disabled in line of military duty. C Heard Michigan's wealthy Couzens exclaim: "This talk of 'no money' is silly. Look at the millions and millions that are used looking after bugs, insects and pigs. We spend money for reforestation that will be of no benefit for 40 or 50 years. We appropriate for migratory birds-my God, migratory birds!-and yet we say there is not enough money for human relief...
...bean soup, stuffed cabbage and hamburger steak. With many a polite smile and exclamation they proceeded to eat not only black bean soup, stuffed cabbage and hamburger but also cornbread, spinach, apple & orange salad, ice cream. Not because Governor Gifford Pinchot was serving them the menu did his guests exclaim, but because he had paid for each one's food (except the ice cream, which came extra) only...