Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ballyhooed as "the race of the century," the magnificent bubble burst a few days before the scheduled rendezvous when Owner Howard scratched The Biscuit because of a weak knee. Disgruntled racing fans felt cheated, muttered unpleasant words about Owner Howard's weak knees. When a subsequent attempt to get the two horses on the same track at the same time failed at the last moment, popular interest subsided...
...other crops, particularly wheat (of which the Government announced it would sell 100,000,000 bushels abroad by July, has thus far succeeded in selling only 39,000,000). Few people either here or in Europe would thank him for his trouble, because sales at whatever price he could get might depress both domestic and international farm prices...
Retailers, like the National Retail Dry Goods Association, were horrified. Might not the cut price become a yardstick for all dry goods? How would the Government decide who was to get goods cheaply, who expensively...
...week the Board recommended minima of 62½? an hour in the East and West, 45? in twelve Southern States. Subject to approval by Secretary of Labor Perkins, the recommendations are a blow to small independent steel companies, a blessing to Labor which estimated that 75,000 men would get raises...
...form of illustrated questionnaires and booklets, are sent to lists of the rank & file public, of which a minimum of 25% invariably reply, and to a special Weaver list of 100,000 motor enthusiasts, of whom as many as 90% will reply. On the average, Weaver manages to get answers to about two-thirds of his 3,000,000 "invitations." Passing on what he learns to his superiors, he is wont to remark: "2,000,000 opinions make a fact...