Word: margins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bergen County, N. ].was incorporated the first Harold-G-Hoffman-for-President Club. Short, stocky, amiable Harold Hoffman was Motor Vehicle Commissioner of New Jersey before he was elected Governor by a paper-thin margin last year. A tireless public speaker, an able bowler, a backslapping handshaker, he has run for ten offices without tasting defeat...
With a record of ten wins in ten encounters, the Freshman hoopsters are favored to take the Bruins by a wide margin when they clash at the new Gym tonight...
Between September 24 and December 31 a little over 252,000 meals were served out of the Smith Hall kitchen for the five Houses near the River, while the whole system has been serving about 10,000 meals everyday. The margin on each meal served is about one cent and the average cost per meal is 53.8 cents...
Hunter has been prominent in scholastic, athletic, and extra-curricular activities since he entered Harvard from Belmont Hill. He is a member of the Student Council and is cox on the Varsity crew. He was defeated for Third Marshal in the recent disputed Marshal elections by a narrow margin. This last winter he has helped organize the College Service, an undergraduate laundry enterprise...
...crisis in peanuts, which virtually stopped trading on the Baltic Exchange for three days, soon provoked uneasiness in two other commodities which have lately become speculative favorites in London: white pepper and shellac. Gamblers who had bought orange shellac on margin at 122 shillings per cwt. during last year's frantic speculation could not sell for more than seven shillings sixpence last week. Although financial editors declared that "certain weak positions have been taken over by strong hands," Mincing Lane brokers remembered that the same thing had been said before the Strauss crash. White pepper traders were chilled...