Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regret to advise, however, that although we still hold the deep well record, they found oil the other day in one of the Texas fields some 90 feet deeper than our producing horizon in K.C.L. A2, which is, as you will recall, between 13,085 and 13,170 feet...
...York City's 1939 World's Fair. There, laying the cornerstone of the Fair's Federal Building, he said with a twinkle in his eye: "The master mason certifies that the cornerstone is well and truly laid and in return I have assured him that I hold a union card.''* There, accompanied by his dumpty little Fusion Republican friend, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, he also had the experience of being introduced to 20,000 delegates of the National Education Association (see p. 28) by a lady no less well known than himself: his wife. All three...
...Mint. Last month she made a trip to West Point to inspect the vast strong box she had had built in a corner of the Military Academy's reservation. Semi-sunken, its obdurate walls made of reinforced concrete, Mrs. Ross's strong box is to hold over a billion and a quarter dollars' worth of silver bullion purchased by the Treasury in Manhattan and now overflowing the Assay Office there. "This," said Mrs. Ross with a wave of her hand at the new vaults, "is just for cold storage...
...shift their operations from the rail lines, roadways and comparatively solid soil of north central China to the rail-less, roadless, boggy footpath country of the upper Yangtze Valley just to aid the Navy to a victory. More likely the Army will settle down in its present position, hold its drive on Hankow until the floodwaters seep into the ground...
...Weldon Johnson, 67, famed Negro educator, author (Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man), champion of Negro rights; of injuries sustained when his automobile struck a train; in Wiscasset, Me. Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1916-30), he was also the first Negro to hold a consular post (Puerto Cabello, Venezuela); only Negro in the U. S. ever to command a naval detachment (Nicaragua 1912) ; first Negro baseball pitcher to throw a curve...