Word: glassfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the second one they locked the door to all but known customers, ordered more than $6,000 worth of bulletproof glass for tellers' windows, armored plate for the cages, time locks on the front door and the safe. The equipment didn't come until after the third robbery. The locked door alone might have prevented the third robbery, except that Director Henry Berens kindly opened the door for a stranger who was waving a $10 bill...
Handicap. In Toronto, Stuart H. Glass, suing for shoulder injuries resulting from an auto smashup, declared that the accident had added "10 to 15 strokes" to his golf game...
...Since many of her 600 employees are women, she promoted women into executive jobs. Such benevolent maternalism allowed her to run an open shop for years. When the union arrived in 1946, it was a conservative union of which Mrs. Kerr could approve. The A.F. of L.'s Glass Bottle Blowers' Association hasn't had a major strike in 58 years...
...Kerr still has time for prayer meetings and choir practice, In her way of life, religion and business are inextricably mixed. Whenever a Kerr glass furnace is relit after a shutdown, a minister is called in to ask a blessing...
Harvard Law School is presently engaged in raising money from students for a building program. It spends thousands of dollars annually putting little stick and wire fences around its walks. It recently replaced the plain glass in Hastings Hall mail boxes with new, beveled glass. Many students hesitate to contribute money for such silly projects when the school is apparently too cheap to buy a load of gravel for a mired-in parking lot used every day by the very students asked to contribute...