Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the dingy corridors of City Hall, the big news typhooned. Within half an hour, hundreds of jobholders dutifully swirled into Boss Hague's office to wish him luck. They also took care to shake hands heartily with Heir Apparent Eggers. By noon, 2,000 citizens overflowed into the streets. All city business was suspended...
...textile manufacturers Shapiro said: "If you'll help me sell my 15? patterns they'll help you sell goods." So textile salesmen plugged Simplicity patterns. Sales were moderately brisk when the 1929 crash came. To Simplicity, that was a stroke of luck. Women who had never made a dress in their lives were forced to learn-and Simplicity's cheap, easy-to-make patterns were soon outselling all other brands...
Fishermen's Luck. In Auburn, Me., three hooky-playing schoolboys headed for a good fishing stream, thumbed rides, got a lift-but not to the stream-from Galen I. Veayo, superintendent of schools...
...captain rarely reckoned their position, the ship carried no spare sailcloth to repair the rags she sailed by, the logbook covers had to be unraveled for thread to patch the sails, food and liquor were so carelessly stowed that quantities of both were lost. Americans, observed Moreau, "rely on luck more than on anything else in making a voyage...
...Lisbon and back to the U.S. Last week, he was home again in San Francisco.The five weeks in Europe had cost him exactly $300, plus $1,052 in plane fares. On a vacation that had completely missed Europe's hunger, he had only one bit of financial hard luck: he lost 12,000 black-market francs on roulette at Monte Carlo...