Word: margined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decided to found a cash-and-carry store handling not only tea and a few sidelines but general groceries. Today their chain numbers nearly 16,000 stores literally spread from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It does nearly $1,000,000,000 a year gross business on a profit margin of about 22% and employs nearly 100,000 people. It is run by the Brothers Hartford and a staff of assistants nearly every one of whom rose from grocery counters in their stores...
Senator Robert M. LaFollette, Jr., led his opponents by a wide margin in early scattered returns from one third of the state's 171 counties tonight...
...somewhat to be expected, but the Crimson will have to show something a lot better if they are going to provide a winning score. Freddy Moseley again displayed his talents, but for the rest, its up to Casey & Co. to build up an attack capable of giving Harvard a margin to work...
This was an even worse defeat for the Democrats than the landslide poured in two days ago by the balloting of 2000 undergraduates. For the students supported Bacon by the comparatively small margin of 7-1 and repudiated the New Deal by less than 2-1. Opinion in the "brain trust" part of the University has apparently swung even further into the ranks of conservatism than the sentiments of their pupils...
Like the student group this represents a reversal of feeling on the part of the Faculty as far as the Washington Administration is concerned. By a narrow margin the professorial element was willing to give the New Deal a try last June. But yesterday the record stood 141 "no's" on the question "Do you feel that the policies of the Roosevelt Administration offer a satisfactory method to Recovery"? to 50 "yes" votes. Several men refused to make a decision and marked their ballots...