Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...application to erect at my own expense a life-sized marble statue of the undersigned in the centre of the Calcutta Central Market. It is my intention to engage a leading British or English sculptor to depict me seated among my vegetables and holding a prize cabbage in one hand (left) and a giant carrot in the other (right). "Your obedient servant, Roy Mukerji Das." The startled Markets Committee, unable to think of a valid objection, approved, but referred the entire matter to the Calcutta Municipal authorities...
...cold-storage space in southern California, sells gas and electricity to a large population just south of San Francisco Bay. Because by such means they could cut down gas waste and yet maintain oil production, large California oil companies supported the conservation law. Small companies, on the other hand, raised a chorus of howling protest. They could not afford to build casing-head or "recycling" plants; the small amount of gas they wasted would not warrant the expense of pipe-lines and could not, therefore, be sold; the big operators would profit at their expense. To win over the little...
Died. Konsul C. W. Kummer, 49, acting president of American Bemberg & Glanzatoff Corp. (rayon), director of British Bemberg, Ltd., Associated Rayon Corp., Kodak A. G. (German); at Elizabethton, Tenn.; by his own hand. He had been suffering acutely from gallstones. The local textile union "deferred any action for the present although there was some difference of opinion between the company and this organization." (See p.15...
...Greensburg, Pa., new convicts at Westmoreland County jail were presented by the warden with a "greetings" folder such as hotels hand their guests. Excerpts : "My friend, for a little while you and I are compelled to live under the same roof, and, in a way, to be in each other's company. You come without invitation from me. Probably you had no intention that we should meet in this way. Probably you have made a mistake, perhaps done wrong. I have done both. Let us both, the little while we are together, try to do as we would...
...Greak Neck, microphone and control board are located in the Principal's office, allowing him to "pipe" his voice to any or all classrooms. Likewise from the control board may be sent such hand-picked radio entertainment as Great Neck students should hear, talking-machine records, lectures. Because few large schools have adequate auditoriums, because much time is spent moving shuffling menageries of school children to and from meetings, such new-fangled means of classroom communication will be smiled on by educators...