Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Imperial Chemical Industries sold 35,000,000 cartridges to Paraguay for use in the Chaco. A German firm sold 10,000,000 rounds of ammunition. Winchester Repeating Arms sold 2,500,000 cartridges to Bolivia. Remington sold 100,000 rounds to Paraguay, 20,000,000 to Bolivia. Said Remington's President Davis: "We had to be neutral. We couldn't discriminate against either government...
...Lake Forest cattle firm of Anderson & Findlay imported from Scotland the first herd of pure-bred Aberdeen Angus. A few years before, a white-bearded Scottish landowner named William McCombie had, by a process of delicate selectivity, developed the short-legged, short-necked, squat, hornless, sleek-black creatures. In Lake Forest, Anderson & Findlay's big Angus bull had soon serviced five Angus cows, and before long other breeders, in Kansas, in Iowa, were adding Anguses to their herds. The blacks began taking prizes, first at local shows, then at the Chicago Fat Show, and then, at the first (1900) International...
Last month Jeweler Samuels published a mighty two-page advertisement in San Francisco Sunday newspapers announcing a special one-day sale of Rogers & Bros, silver plate at $25 for a 50-piece set. The firm had once sold $10,000 worth of silverware in one pattern in a single day, said the advertisement, and had been quietly waiting for the proper time to break the record of $12,000 in one day held by another city. "Imagine our dismay then," continued "The House of Lucky Wedding Rings," "when the news reached us shortly thereafter, that on August...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Large, massive, oblong skull, flesh pretty well messed up with scars, folds and wrinkles but amazingly firm in outline. Head like a big trunk, battered by travel and covered with labels, mostly indecipherable. Cosmopolitan, intact but hard-used. Color warm neutral with dingy hair, thick and ill-groomed at rear. Heavy jowl, thrust out and up like an iguana. Mouth curved judicially, lower lip protrudes. Eyes slanting with complicated puckers beneath, giving air of speculation rather than dissipation. Form lumbering, sits carelessly in comfort with wrinkled shoulders. Bright, direct look, the frank, clear gaze of craft. Clever...
...inevitable change in the coaching system; but I went behind this obvious cause to give other reasons why many ignorant people criticize the H.A.A., and to show what little foundation these reasons have Casey's own statement on Sunday made it plain that Harvard's policy has remained firm and unchangeable in the last years. It cannot be described as "tying the hands" of the coach, because his team is slated to play college with whom we have had long-standing friendships and contracts, and the loss of whom from our schedule would occasion more outcry than there has already...