Word: fistedness
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The Gosses are a clannish family living modestly and quietly in various parts of Connecticut but there is not a trace of nepotism in the old family concern. From the president down, salaries are low and the everlasting watchword is tight-fisted efficiency.
"Miss Robinson." cried the father of the pressmen's union, "had no more to do with the employment of Jack Wilshear than my office boy! I think she is 1,000,000% in every detail. There are enough two-fisted men around here without picking on a little woman."
*A reference to Britain's two-fisted grip at Suez and Gibraltar.
Located in the central part of the State 35 mi. west of Warren Gamaliel Harding's Marion, McGuffey lies in the mucklands around the Scioto River where the National Onion Growers Association controls 17,000 acres of onions and peppermint. In June the 700 men, women & children who weed...
Rising prices for manufactured goods are a dubious business blessing but the benefits of rising commodity prices (and even in terms of gold they have been climbing for eight months) are not so questionable. The foreign trade of Brazil and a half dozen other South and Central American republics is...