Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...limit was 18% of the country in area, 13% in population. Mr. Willkie tried to convince the President that investors did have very real fears and consequently would not furnish money for utilities to spend, particularly "junior money" (common stock). Each concurred that the utilities could profitably spend a lot of money in the next year, perhaps as much...
...rigors of a job that can be as rigorous as any in the land. Speaker Bankhead's hobby is collecting gavels used by his predecessors, of which he has six, belonging to Speakers Clark, Gillett, Longworth, Garner, Rainey, Byrns. Although his own is the smallest of the lot, Administration leaders were hoping last week that it would not prove the least effective...
Meanwhile Prisoner Bernstein has had a far happier lot in jail than most political prisoners. His clothes and laundry are sent in from his home, his food from restaurants. He is allowed a glass of beer daily and a full bottle of burgundy on Sundays, permitted to receive the London Times, and TIME, a privilege few free Germans enjoy. His wife, whose passport was at first seized, later restored, may visit him for 20 minutes each Wednesday, other prisoners' wives having the same privilege...
...tall, handsome and 53, he is a member of the odd-lot brokerage firm of Jacquelin & De Coppet. Last week he was designated to become the top man of golf -to become president of the U. S. Golf Association, taking office next January...
...less & less attention to tobacco, more & more to real estate. In 1926, which is the year Mr. Schulte's story would end if Horatio Alger had written it, the Schulte Real Estate Co. made almost $2,000,000, and Mr. Schulte was drawing profits as well from a lot of other real estate companies. But by 1936 real estate did not seem such a good investment...