Word: mops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stockmarket crash the Vans bought from the Armour and Swift packing interests certain terminal and belt line railroad properties in North Kansas City and St. Joseph, Mo. The price was about $19,000,000. In the next few months the Vans bought control of Missouri Pacific R.R. ("MOP...
...opinion of the railroading Vans, MOP could well use the terminal properties they had purchased from the packers. So in December 1930 their Alleghany Corp. sold the properties to a subsidiary called Terminal Shares, Inc., and Terminal Shares in turn sold them to MOP-on the installment plan. In effect, it was a deal between the right hand and the left hand, because the Vans controlled both the buyer and the seller...
Capitalist, not counterman, Mr. Durant went down to North Asbury last week to see that all was swept and garnished for the grand opening. According to his nephew Wallace R. Willett, he went through the new concessions "like a whirlwind." Mr. Durant took up a mop in one shop, a dish cloth in another, to show concessionaires his ideas of spotlessness. Next day he departed for his old home town of Flint, Mich, on other business while North Asbury housewives stormed the Market's debut, attracted by Mr. Durant's special lunches at 5? an item, his special...
...good chance to win back independence from Britain. De Wet and de la Rey led the revolt, roused nearly 12,000 Boers to their flag. But Smuts stood pat. The revolt was put clown at the cost of more than a .thousand casualties. When England urged the Union to mop up German Southwest Africa Smuts took fire again with Rhodes's great idea. Then, with German Southwest Africa mopped up. Smuts was given the harder job of absorbing German East Africa. Here he found the Boer War tables exactly turned: this time it was Smuts who had the overwhelming...
...herself in a brown blanket, sat in a camp chair ostentatiously looking in the opposite direction while her rivals sprang off the low board. Obviously the most personable contestant in the event, she was also, in the opinion of five judges, the ablest by a shade. Claudia Eckert, a mop-haired, 18-year-old Northwestern amphibian who, like famed Katherine ("Minnow") Rawls, is indiscriminately adept at all forms of aquatic competition. Last year she won the A. A. U. high diving championship. Last week she lost this title to 13-year-old Marjorie Gestring of Los Angeles, replaced it with...