Word: guess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Then he suddenly found his stuff again, and now Old Ironpants is back in the regular lineup, and a star at that. I guess his trouble was, the first time in the league, that he was putting in long hours trying to save the country on the side and didn't realize that either task is a full-time job in itself...
...stuff . . . an amiable, neighborly, good-natured Kansas mutual admiration society, with ribald but affectionate swipes at the old 'Budget Balancer.' " It ended at Cleveland when the same group "managed to stumble through, and, by looking wise, seemed to be dominating the situation, which was controlled largely by guess and by grab, and, by good dumb luck, the situation always unfolded hours ahead of them." The Republican platform was shaped with Editor White representing Kansas on the Resolutions Committee. When the platform was finished he thanked his fellow members, and, not having talked to the Governor in six hours...
...rowdy New York Post and sold for $26,167 through its Publishers' Service Co. to the provincial paper. Known as the "Famous Names" cartoon contest, the circulation-catcher presented 84 drawings, one each day, by Cartoonist Peter Arno and a daily list from which readers were to guess the correct picture title. Like most such schemes, "Famous Names" was easy at first, soon grew harder & harder. Ten cents was required of contestants for each week's entries, $16,000 in prizes promised to those whose lists of titles most nearly approximated, the syndicate's answers...
Platinum statistics are half fictional. Experts estimate that there may be about 12,000,000,000 oz. of silver, about 300,000,000 oz. of gold in circulation. They guess that there may exist 6,000,000 oz. of platinum. They have only a rough idea how much is being produced-it may be 300,000 oz. a year-and no one is sure whether the leading producer is Russia or Canada. Colombia and South Africa produce nearly all the rest. The U. S. piddles along with a couple of thousand ounces. Biggest platinum consumer is the U. S. What...
...Russia sells through Amtorg. With this small field of big sellers and an unorganized field of small buyers no one could tell whether the recent platinum boom was caused by a rush of buying or a reluctance to sell. Last week the air was full of conjectures. Least ominous guess was that there had been a sudden rise in the marriage rate, causing a demand for platinum wedding rings. Retail jewelers in convention last week announced jewelry sales were up 30% from a year ago, sales of diamonds (with which platinum most often goes...