Word: guess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They know that something is going on and that a lot of big bugs are doing a great amount of talking. I guess about 50 persons have asked me "what's it all about?" Thanks to TIME I can put these people straight! My answer to their questions is as follows: "Buy a copy of TIME, July 20 issue and turn to p. 20, and if you don't know all about it after reading three pages, then...
When the Empress Eugénie hat reappeared cautiously last spring the style world took a guess. It was a saucy fillip to be followed by surprises. U. S. department store buyers, fashion reporters, newsgatherers, sweltering in a Paris hot spell, dodged traffic last week from the Place Vendôme to Etoile where the fashion houses are finding out the surprises. The Empress Eugénie hat was still there, low-crowned, point-brimmed, fitting the head like a piece of orange peel with curled edges. It flourished a provocative ostrich feather. Ostrich farmers on the French Riviera...
Last week President Merrill and three directors resigned without explanation. Wall Street tried to guess the reason. One possibility was that, although Remington Rand's profits have dwindled lately, President Merrill did his work well, is now needed by National City to jack up another one of its client companies. The other possibility was that National City may be retiring as Remington Rand's most prominent banking sponsor. For just as Chairman-President James H. Rand Jr. has built far beyond his father's original business, so has his cousin George F. Rand Jr. succeeded and surpassed...
Observers can only guess who will come out on top. In the U. S., synthetic producers have enlarged their capacity, will enter no agreements. As soon as the cartel was broken, the price of sulphate of ammonia, a nitrate fertilizer, broke $4.50 per ton to $27.50. Biggest of U. S. nitrate companies is Allied Chemical & Dye, buyer of all the sulphate of ammonia which forms in the ovens of United States Steel...
...vice presidents, she was elected without opposition, prompting Will Rogers to say: "America is a land of opportunity and don't ever forget it. ... There was elected to a very high office . . . just a plain, pleasant-looking, fat (and enjoying it), commonsense woman. ... I guess from her name, 'Miss,' that she is an old maid, but, darn it, I just liked her looks in the paper this morning and I believe she could teach these young modern heathens of ours some sense...