Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Long a Harcourt, Brace best seller, it has been followed by Miss Mayo's novelization of the same subject, Slaves of the Gods, today a near bestseller...
...Champaign, Ill., a Mrs. H. B. Schmidt won a rocking chair marathon when after 280½ hours her only surviving competitor, a man, fell asleep. Said she: "I've spent years training on summer-resort verandas and I'll keep going as long as my machine holds together...
...epitome of Tropical medicine was the 381-page annual report which United Fruit Co. published last week. United Fruit does a plantation, railroad and shipping business in seven tropical American countries. Long ago its officials prudently decided to maintain the health of their employes, of passengers on their ships. At the beginning of this year 110 Company doctors, laboratory technicians and registered nurses provided medical services for 55,604 plantation employes, 89,053 non-employes, 31,726 ship's personnel, 57,592 ship passengers-a grand total of 233,975 souls, about as many as live in Akron, Ohio...
...organized last year to manufacture commercial airplanes. They paid $4 for Crescent stock, tried to sell it for $12 to $16 a share with the intimation that Crescent planes had been ordered for passenger service between New York and Newfoundland, Bermuda and London. Clarence Chamberlin, a gull for no long time,* was vexed. He asked and received a temporary injunction against Hadley & Co. selling Crescent stock. Chamberlin also had newspapers print his public warning against buying Crescent stocks. This scandal, however, did not create official investigation. Airvia-Coastal. The postal inspectors last week made a just distinction between promoting...
...three men and women throw their cigarets away when the butts are between one and one and a half inches long. If the stub could be fireproofed, other careless fires could be prevented...