Word: hards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hard of hearing and inclined to mumble, Witness Weinberg, who was business manager for the racket's late boss, Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer, told how charges for "Pop," averaging $750 a week which appeared on the racket's books, were payments to Jimmy Hines,-* said that in addition the racket put up $32,000 to warm the Tammany political wigwam in the city campaign of 1933. Under cross-examination Witness Weinberg admitted he had been a burglar, a gangster, gunman, perjurer, but he denied that it was he who murdered Dutch Schultz. At one point. Defendant Hines...
...past any more. They have forbidden it. We must be alert to what is changing around us, even though we cannot understand. They have warned us that the world has come to a sharp turn, and they say even students must be ready for the careening. It's a hard blow, because we have spent so many delightful years in our towers. It's somewhat of a joke that we, of all people, must think about security. We really are afraid. We tell each other over our sherry and vegetable soup that courage at such a time is blindness...
Captain Dollar died in 1932 and his son, R. (for Robert) Stanley, fat, red, fiftyish, took over. Trained in the Dollar lumber camps, R. Stanley had a hard time figuring out the financial maze his father had managed so shrewdly. He got help from Herbert and Mortimer Fleishhacker and their Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco. Straightway, the Dollar maze got mazier. Criss-crossed family corporations were set up, existing companies expanded. Soon the Dollar Line owed Anglo California some $3,000,000; and of the Dollar stock, the Fleishhackers owned 109,000 shares, the Dollars...
...making rayon from cellulose. The finished product is straw-colored, resembles the best grade, washed and carded Merino wool, but will not shrink so much and is mothproof. By varying the acids used in curdling the milk they claim they can make a soft, silky grade or a hard, stronger type of yarn. Although Messrs. Gould and Whittier do not know exactly what it will cost to produce synthetic wool commercially, they are certain it can be sold about as cheaply as rayon (50? a Ib.). As soon as the Bureau of Dairy Industry gets its patents, it will probably...
Simultaneously with closing of the Steinbeck deal came Viking's rosy announcement that advance orders for Steinbeck's new volume of short stories, The Long Valley, to be published September 19, had already reached the 8,000 mark. Hard at work on a new novel at his bungalow in Los Gatos, Calif., Novelist Steinbeck meanwhile awaited a check for $6,000 covering back royalties. This will bring his total earnings (Of Mice and Men accounting for the bulk of them) to around $50,000. In another 17 years, when he is 53, he figures he will have saved...