Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lord Walter Runciman, 90, millionaire British shipowner, father of Walter Runciman who was onetime (1914-16, 1931-37) president of the Board of Trade; at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. Lord Runciman ran away to sea at 12, became a peer at 85. His own shipping concern was the Moor Line of cargo vessels, though he was board chairman-of Anchor Lines...
...foot of Grand Avenue. A one-and-one-half-ton truck carted the pictures into the gallery and husky young Negroes hung them up. They needed more than two miles of wire, 5,000 nails. At the press preview a Chevrolet sedan traveling from one end of the line to the other was at the disposal of lazy or legweary newshawrks...
...averaged $16,805 per store. But when profits per store began to drop in 1928 and Depression accentuated the skid, Woolworth contemplated changes. By 1932 when profits per store were down to $8,093, Woolworth's moved towards higher prices to compete with rival chains which offered a line of merchandise broader in price and quality. This year with profits per store down to $9,580 (1936),* it made another decision...
...enough to make Joslyn the biggest independent U. S. telephone pole supplier.* From Idaho it gets trimmed poles of western red cedar, 25 to 35 ft. tall, creosotes them at its Chicago plant and sells them for $5 to $7. The company also manufactures a complete line of cross-arms, insulators, brackets, pins and other power line equipment which happens to be very much in demand by public utilities, now loosening up after years of pinching on maintenance. So last week Joslyn reported something notable: on sales almost doubled since 1936, six months earnings amounted to $573,025, an increase...
...With his circus, she performed all over the U. S. and Europe. In later years, when she went with Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, millions gawked at her and fed her peanuts. Always leader of the parade, Babe was the unquestioned monarch of the elephant picket line. But three years ago General Director William M. Mann of the National Zoological Park persuaded the Ringlings to retire Babe to his pachyderm house. Besides plain old age, she was afflicted with an ingrown toenail, bad teeth. Even so she became the prize exhibit of the Washington Zoo. Younger, stronger elephants...