Word: golden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government, these companies and men got together to buy gasoline from independent refiners in the spot markets of east Texas and Oklahoma; by contract the price of gasoline they sold to big jobbers was determined by the price that they themselves paid in the spot markets ; gradually, by "golden stairs to greed and avarice." they raised the price of the small quantities of gasoline they bought from the independents, thereby raising the price of the large quantities of the gasoline they sold to the jobbers, which in turn raised midwest retail prices...
...Palace in Tokyo, in a hall adorned with priceless golden screens and Japan's famed wall painting The Thousand Sparrows, the Imperial Council met. His Majesty bolt upright, his generals and admirals in full regalia, his civilian Cabinet in frock coats "Bismarck style," all sat before tables draped with costly old brocade. So much and no more was the authentic news of that fateful meeting that any foreign correspondent in Tokyo was able to obtain. The proceedings were veiled in almost religious secrecy. The event which immediately followed it could not however be concealed...
...Listening for Rolls, Gluckes, Bells, Schokels, Flutes, and for faults- Hard Aufzug, Bad Nasal Tour, Ugly Interjection-he awarded points, to the best between 60 and 80 out of a possible 100. Weary after three days' hearings, Judge Taylor gave the show's championship to year-old Golden Gate Special, a soft yellow male Roller owned by Howard W. Lewis of San Francisco, then went to bed. At four next morning officials pulled him out of bed, told him he had missed four birds. He sleepily listened, said Golden Gate Special was still best...
...further explanation Mr. DeMille's first description of the land of golden opportunity for the Hollywood-minded collegian paled somewhat. Mr. DeMille is after the bright young men all right but he won't train 'em. He expects the colleges to do that...
...along the bottom of all 1938 automobile license plates the phrase NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR 1939. Other States had done the same sort of thing. VACATIONLAND was once stamped on Maine's plates. South Carolina motorists advertised THE IODINE PRODUCTS STATE. Californians carried the talisman THE GOLDEN STATE. In the New York Legislature the necessary bill was unanimously passed and "World's Fair'' plates were issued. But for a fortnight, fastidious New York car-owners, bolting on new plates, have wondered. That they should be asked to make peripatetic billboards of their cars...