Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fear of appearing unduly swanky in so luxurious a car (average price: $18,000). Rolls-Royce hastened to blast away this sales resistance with advertisements boldly captioned: To the Man Who is Afraid to Let His Dreams Come True. But during Depression the number of such fearful men grew so great that Rolls-Royce sales since 1931 fell off over 50% to $926,000. Last week, after four years of Depression deficits, Rolls-Royce hit upon a brand new idea. President John S. Inskip put on display in Manhattan a hybrid 'luxury" car, the Brewster "Cabriolet de Ville," with...
...months ago. Neither black-browed Majority Leader Byrns nor white-crested Speaker Rainey could stem the tide. The House did not accept the Senate bill but it thoroughly upset the Administration program by voting $91,700,000 extra for veterans' pensions and $130.000.000 extra for Federal pay. Representatives grew so rambunctious that they were ready to take on the Senate as well as the President. Among other things they killed Senator Borah's amendment that the pay restoration should be limited to employes drawing less than $6,000 a year-an amendment which would have kept members...
...Indians as models but not Two Guns. Later Sculptor Eraser had to have a form letter printed, of which 5,000 copies were mailed, saying that Two Guns was not the original. But the story was told so often that Two Guns finally believed it himself. Thus Two Guns grew great and prospered. He owned a ranch, leased some of his land and grew old comfortably, for he did no work. In recent years as official greater at the Great Northern hotel in Glacier Park, he was housed, fed and given two or three dollars a day. He also...
Herbert Stanley Morrison, who set an example for the Empire, is a onetime errand boy and telephone operator who grew up to be Mayor of suburban Hackney in 1920. Serving two terms in the House of Commons, he was Laborite Minister of Transport (1929-31). Since the fall of the Labor Cabinet he has concentrated on London city politics. Nowadays, despite his beliefs, he appears as correctly clad as any stockbroker, proudly carrying the Londoner's traditional furled umbrella. It was not always so. In 1929, three months after he became His Majesty's Minister of Transport...
Washington, March 25--Sixteen internationally-known bankers and industrialists appealed to all the governments tonight, through the International Chamber of Commerce, to stabilize currencies. The appeal came as rumors grew that France and Switzerland might have to abandon the gold standard...