Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shoes with the dark, patched garb of the proletariat. However, though trying his best to achieve impartiality, the author cannot avoid partisanship any more than all the other commentators who have flooded Russia and regurgitated their findings to us. Throughout the book Hindus impresses upon the reader his own firm conviction that despite all difficulties and whatever the cost, the Revolution will sweep on, brushing from its path all impediments, crushing all opposition. "The Great Offensive" will continue, for the idea has become part of the modern, Russian's soul; it is the nation's expression if itself. The Soviet...
...dealer, one R. P. Sabine, had put in the low bid on 1,500 trucks which the Civilian Conservation Corps proposed to buy. His bid was declared ineligible by General Johnson because Mr. Ford had failed to sign the automobile code and under Presidential ruling only Blue Eagle firms could receive Government contracts (TIME, Aug. 21). Dealer Sabine protested that his firm was under the Blue Eagle, that he was, in fact, a leader of the NRA in his locality. Said he: "I submitted the bids as a private dealer, not as a representative of the Ford Motor...
...that this bank "extend credit to every person, firm or corporation requiring money with which to purchase necessities or to employ men to aid in that purpose...
...marry a U. S. President while he was in office. Last week as sole proprietor of a famed 131-year-old business she acquired distinction for business ideals. When the present Widow Wilson married Norman Gait in 1896 she married the scion of an established institution. The jewelry firm of Gait & Bro. was founded in Alexandria, Va. in 1802. In 1825 it moved to Pennsylvania Avenue in the Capital and began a century-long career as purveyor of jewels by appointment to the most majestic Washington society. Into the Gait store the great ladies of U. S. history were wont...
Samuel Ungerleider, onetime liquor wholesaler, retailer and rectifier, member of Fenner, Beane & Ungerleider, resigned to become president of Distillers & Brewers Corp. of America, $7,500,000 liquor holding company formed last August. After Jan. 1 the firm of Fenner, Beane & Ungerleider will be Fenner, Beane...