Word: heaping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simply?well, he isn't. Life insurance agents have not added the 100 billionth part of one cent to the wealth of the U. S. What they have done is simply to gather up, at enormous expense, the tokens of wealth created by others, pile it up in a heap, dole out small portions of the total to their subscribers and let the surplus accumulate. W. BLENKO...
...gazed wide-eyed-motionless- voiceless-and after a moment of tense waiting the other said: 'Then-I am!' " It was Carla who jumped. She and Paul were almost drowned, were sucked into a river cave, crawled out, but not before Carla was hurt by a rubble-heap slip. Claire went off with a stoop-shouldered sculptor. But not until the two women had confabulated on their emotions...
...happily did Anaconda appear to be sitting on the top of the copper heap that few observers were conscious, last week, of Anaconda's troubles. But Chairman of the Board John D. Ryan and President Cornelius F. Kelly knew that, prosperity or no prosperity, two thorns remained in the side of Anaconda to irritate, exasperate. One thorn was George Campbell Carson. The other was William A. Clark...
...noisy "Funeralizing of Crickneck" is broad comedy which might have any superstitious community for setting, but "Napoleon Crossing the Rockies" is unique. A railroad representative tries to bully two old folks to sell their property. Steadfast as the Napoleon of their ditty they refuse this stranger's heap of gold, but sell to a suave acquaintance who gives the old woman a chain of gaudy beads, and the old man new strings for his fiddle...
...money is diverted to speculation, too little to the economic needs of the U. S. Councils of war followed. Bankers considered increasing the charge made for placing the loans, fixing a minimum amount to be lent. Corporations countered by throwing an additional $36,913,000 on the call loan heap. Cried Charles Edwin Mitchell, president of the National City Bank: "It is a dangerous and unhealthy trend." Said able Vice President Francis Hinckley Sisson of the Guaranty Trust Co: "This is one of the by-products of prosperity with which we have not learned to dal." Warned the wise Cleveland...