Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Supreme Court labored six days and rested on the seventh, labored again six days and on the second seventh counted his labors. In the fortnight he had called 18,146 cases to his bar. Four out of five he was obliged to continue. Yet the nearly 4,000 cases of which he disposed represented amazingly expeditious, probably record, court action...
...recently arrested and acquitted of the charge of "indecent conduct" in Hyde Park with Sir Leo Chiozza Money, 58, onetime Parliamentary Secretary to.David Lloyd George. In dismissing the case the judge severely rebuked the constables concerned and fined them jointly ?10 ($48). The astounding and scandalous aftermath came a fortnight later when Miss Savage was called upon at her place of work by Inspector Clark and Policewoman Wilde who imperatively insisted that she accompany them to New Scotland Yard for further questioning with regard to the charge of which she had been acquitted...
When such mergers occur, the financing is usually the easiest part of the work. Much more difficult is whipping two sales organizations together. So difficult is this that some organizations keep original sales forces intact and separate. The Chrysler-(Dodge)-Dillon deal of last fortnight (TIME, June 11) is such a case. But with Gold Dust and American Linseed the problem is relatively simple. Both sell to the same grocers-cleansers and foods. Salesmen need add only a few loose leaves to their portfolios. But there are apt to be fewer salesmen than the two companies now separately employ...
Milk. To lowans, Jens Jensen means milk and produce. Coon Rapids, Iowa, last fortnight sent despatches to say that Armour & Co. had bought out the Jens Jensen properties (40 units...
...Manhattan last fortnight, George Hicks, 60, clumsy, careless, fell off a subway platform. Before he could scramble up the edge again, a train, like a big boa came slithering toward him. George Hicks flattened himself face downward. The boa slithered over him, stopped. Ten openings opened. Hundreds of humans wriggled into the openings, became corpuscles of the boa. It hissed a little, rolled on over the body of George Hicks, and into a dark hole. George Hicks rose, unhurt, and made for the platform. Again a boa with two small red eyes came toward him, too fast. Again George Hicks...