Word: oak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oak Lane, Philadelphia...
...asset. Last week more than 1,000 Kansas Citizens gratified a long-cherished ambition to see the inside of the Long house. Up for auction was everything Lumberman Long possessed except the sets of Dickens, Eliot and Bulwer-Lytton which lined the walls of the little oak room where he read the Bible every morning and to which was brought his 10 o'clock glass of milk. While Auctioneer William Henry Jones grew hoarse trying to get better prices and Housekeeper Catherine Viles wept salty tears of sadness, bidders and gapers were able to glean from the house...
...recent rediscovery of the asteroid Hidalgo by a volunteer observer of the Harvard observatory at Oak Ridge has revived the theory that the body, which has been thought an asteroid may in fact be a comet. The discovery was made by Raymond Boyd a few days ago, previous to which time the flying body had not been seen since...
...sales were $100,000,000 more. President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. flatly announced that costs must be cut. In August when Fisher Body was ready to buy lumber, its purchasing agents told the hardwood manufacturers something like this: "We cannot afford to pay $66 per thousand ft. of oak. We know that is the minimum price established by your code authority but we can pay only $60. We know and you know that $60 will leave a profit. If you accept the order you will be violating the letter of your code but you will not be violating the spirit...
While the Speaker of the House of Commons dozed behind the great oak table on which lies its glittering silver-gilt mace, the Masses and the Classes of Great Britain clashed in the persons of their duly elected M. P.'s last week over a 4th Century Biblical manuscript for which the Soviet Government has been paid...