Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...funds because he did not fancy the wife his father had bought for him. Last week near Los Angeles gypsy royalty made more news. Several months ago, swart Mark Adams, who has a little farm in the San Fernando Valley and rules the valley's gypsies with a firm brown hand, was crowned "King of all the Gypsies in the null Last week, from far & near, a horde of Pharaoh's People gathered outside Los Angeles to pay King Mark due homage. Peddlers, phrenologists, fortune-tellers and silversmiths convened to eat succulent barbecued steer, to dance...
This year Postmaster General Brown was informed that an unknown business house in New York was sending 1,000,000 pieces of Christmas advertising to Santa Claus for remailing. "General" Brown ordered extra men and postal equipment to the village to handle the rush. Then the firm changed its mind, decided to mail from home. Thoroughly annoyed, the Postmaster General last week announced that his department had had enough of this foolishness and that on Jan. 1 the name of the Santa Claus post office would be changed to something more commonplace...
...friendly relations with Germany will remain now as before. That is my firm conviction...
...Library's whole massive-beamed roof crashing down on his head. The avalanche of masonry, bursting through the vaulted ceiling of the great Salone Sistino above, smashed into the gaily painted reference room on the ground floor. The walls, six feet of solid brickwork, stood firm...
...Strange Career" Mr. Hoover is depicted as an unscrupulous stock promoter who as an "insider" made a fortune at the expense of the investing public. He is followed to West Australia's gold fields as the agent of the London engineering firm of Bewick, Moreing & Cox of which he later became a partner. In detail his "taking" of the Kaiping coal mines in China is described, together with the London law suit in which an equity court found against his firm and in favor of Mandarin Chang. Tin enterprises in Nigeria, oil ventures in Siberia and Peru, gold digging...