Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that I'll bet a dollar to a slug that you have seen more than one well come in; you know what a hell of a racket three million feet of gas will make coming out of 2" tubing; and just how damn slick a rig floor can get after the first few barrels of Big Injun crude has squirted up and hit the crown pulley and is now raining down through the rig like an April cloud burst. . . . JIM VANDERGRIFT...
Franklin Roosevelt was still anxious to save face by keeping the nature of the settlement dark, and avoiding a roll call. Neither was possible that afternoon when the issue was settled on the floor of the Senate. Senator Logan who had sponsored the defeated bill was allowed to move to recommit it. Only 20 last-ditch fighters voted against him. Seventy other Senators jumped into the breach provided for them by John Nance Garner, to settle in an hour a profitless wrangle that had played havoc with public affairs for nearly six months...
...Fusion candidates liked him least, for Mayor La-Guardia has not good manners. Short, swart and tousled, with a minimum of neck and a maximum of torso, he takes off his rumpled coat and leans back in his big office chair with his feet dangling a foot from the floor, no picture of municipal dignity. When he flies off the handle, as he frequently does, his voice grows shrill, he is likely to call almost anybody names, and whatever he doesn't like is "lousy...
...young floor trader for a brokerage house in the early 1880s, Mr. Smythe first learned what treasure is sometimes wrapped in apparently worthless paper. Instructed to sell as junk some old Southern State bonds, young Smythe disposed of most of them for $2 apiece, gave one South Carolina bond to a friend who prom-ised to split any profits he might make on a mysterious sale. A month later Smythe received a check for $400. He lost no time in writing to the Treasurer of South Carolina, who informed him that that particular bond had been redeemable...
...founded 1824), set up an editorial which read: "Such an emotional spectacle as that of Senator McCarran of Nevada speaking after a prolonged illness, in passionate opposition to the Supreme Court Bill, is by no means unprecedented in the annals of Congressional debate. Other Senators have also taken the floor, disregarding their physicians' orders, with the knowledge common in the Senate galleries that the effort might cost their lives...