Word: laned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Massachusetts' late Senator Henry Laurens Dawes (1816-1903) can be traced an interesting and plausible historical theory which holds that the cost of Alaska was actually even less. In his collected letters, Franklin K. Lane, Interstate Commerce Commissioner under Theodore Roosevelt, relates being told by Senator Dawes that when negotiations for the purchase of Alaska were quietly started before the Civil War, $1,400,000 was the tentative price agreed on. During the War, when the Confederacy was trying to get British and French recognition, Secretary Seward persuaded Russia, as a demonstration of friendship, to have its warships cruise...
...Montreal, gunmen robbed Canada Bread Co. of $2,700, sped away in an automobile. When a motorcycle policeman started after them, the panicky gunmen threw a bag containing $2,300 of the money into a lane, outdistanced the motorcycle, vanished. The policeman only wanted to give them a ticket for driving through a "stop" sign...
...guard against the fluctuations which characterize Mincing Lane pepper trading, margins are closely regulated on the New York Pepper Futures Market, daily fluctuations are limited to 1? per lb. per day and pepper stocks must be kept in licensed warehouses subject to inspection. The trading unit is 33,600 lb. of Lampong (Netherlands East Indies) black pepper, with Aleppy and Tellicherry (British India) as optional deliveries. Pepper prices are currently very low (6? per lb.) because last year's crop was the largest in history (87,000 tons were shipped) and there is now a glut of pepper...
...small, carpeted, oak-paneled room in the offices of N. M. Rothschild & Sons on London's St. Swithin's Lane, six immaculate gentlemen gather every morning except Sundays and bank holidays to fix the world price of gold. These six men, the so-called Gold Committee, represent six great British bullion brokers: N. M. Rothschild & Sons, Mocatta & Goldsmid, Samuel Montagu & Co., Pixley & Abell, Sharps & Wilkins, Johnson, Matthey & Co. Before each member is a telephone directly connected with twelve telephones in his home office. There attentive clerks are connected with the firm's customers-other bullion brokers, mining...
Although not always dependable, Lane pitched brilliantly against Columbia in mid-May, holding the Lions to four hits. Previous to the four-game series out of town nearly two weeks ago, Curtiss had not started a single game. Because of his victory over the Columbians on that trip, the tall right-hander is now ranked second on the Crimson mound staff...