Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago President Roosevelt bunched the Washington government of Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands all under a new Division of Territories & Island Possessions in the Department of Interior. Last week he found a man to run the lot along New Deal lines. The man was Dr. Ernest Henry Gruening...
...department in nearly every biggish store. No matter how much he may lose on his dresses or his stockings through price-cutting and competition, the store manager can count on a snug income from corsets. Early in Depression he was persuaded by the corset-makers, a shrewd and clannish lot, to protect the corset. The manufacturers promised to keep their prices on quality lines stable, if the retailers would do the same. They even designated how much profit the retailer should make-sometimes as high as 50%. Result was that, while other members of the clothing industry were foundering...
Furthermore, DCL was forming a U. S. gin subsidiary in which it wanted Mr. Porter to have a two-fifth interest. Upshot is that DCL will let Mr. Porter have 1) the two-fifth interest, 2) the money to buy it with and 3) a lot more money besides. In return the DCL directors were pleased to get for some $7,000,000 a 12% interest in the No. 1 U. S. whiskey company...
Seriously, though, how do you folks conduct your strikes back there so that no blood is shed and both sides get what they want? The problem is most vexing to us, and we need a lot of good advice?or, should I say examples...
...husband is perfect! I call him 'honey,' but never Harold unless I'm mad. Where did I meet him? Well, I've been on my own since I got out of school, for mother travels a lot. I was living in a boarding house and [Harold] came along. In a couple of weeks we were engaged and in two months we were married. . . . I'm the only child prodigy Harold ever knew, so, of course, he thinks child prodigies are swell. He has no literary background, but he doesn't mind mine...