Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Mayor jubilantly arrived at City Hall to find his office floor covered with a tiger skin presented by big game-hunting Deputy Police Commissioner Harold Fowler, the landslide had begun to seem even more impressive. Fusion was in control not only of the Mayor's chair and the District Attorney's office, where Tammany underlings promptly began clearing out their desks in anticipation of the sharp-eyed Dewey occupation on January 1, but of practically every important city job. Its first majority in the crucial Board of Estimate was an astounding...
...months old. Dr. Gericke's current researches are directed toward controlling the colors and mineral contents of vegetables by varying the kinds and quantity of salts in the solution. He has grown tomatoes with double the normal content of beneficial minerals. In his ice box on the second floor of the university's Life Science Building are jars of tomato juice of different colors, one of which is a rich, ruddy red which he believes could be sold at a premium...
...pupils continue to paint like fury. Last week a young Wyeth and a young Pyle again took first and second honors in the 24th annual triple-exhibition of Delaware Artists, Pupils of Howard Pyle and Members of the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, held on the second floor of Wilmington's public library, facing neat Rodney Square...
...scrawny, 17-year-old boy with a strong British accent got his first job as floor sweeper and general retoucher in the Chicago lithographic firm of Shober & Carqueville. A year later he was a scene painter for the Chicago Opera, priming the enormous backdrops with a large brush dipped in glue. This job he attacked so earnestly that at the end of his first day's work he fell in a dead faint on the floor. His name was Albert Sterner, born a U. S. citizen, in England, of naturalized parents...
Beginning November 1, whenever the ticker gets five minutes behind, latest floor prices of 16 major stocks will be given precedence on the ticker, one at a time, every 30 seconds, each preceded by the word FLASH. These up-to-date figures sprinkled through the bulk of late statistics are supposed to give traders an inkling of the market's trend. The 16 FLASH issues: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; American Telephone & Telegraph; Anaconda Copper; Chrysler; Sears, Roebuck; Great Northern (preferred); Consolidated Edison; Republic Steel; General Motors; Standard Oil of N. J.; General Electric; N. Y. Central; Electric Power & Light...