Word: opened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...funpaper L'Os à Moelle (Marrowbone). Each weekday at 13 h. 5 ( 1:05 p. m.) for the last year he has sent Parisians by the hundreds rummaging high & low for varying collections of oddments, to be produced within two hours at a designated rendezvous. An open street is usually necessary for the arriving candidates and their equipages. This was evident from the start, when the first after noon hundreds of participants piled into the old Paste Parisien building with brooms, stray cats and dogs etc., put the wheezy, three-place elevator out of commission, utterly disrupted business...
...college man, chubby, jovial, Yankee Josiah Hayden had sold spring water in Lexington, Mass., been a Y. M. C. A. leader in France during the War and has occupied himself with "private charity work" ever since. Last year Mr. Hayden opened a two-room office in Boston, installed on his desk a carved black bull a foot high (he says it symbolizes his bullishness on U. S. youth) and began to distribute his brother's largesse. To his office, whose doors are always open, came many thousands of requests for money, some crackpot, some worthy...
These schools open their doors to adult refugees for fun and work by night, to children by day. A newly formed Progressive Schools' Committee for Refugee Children, representing some 20 Eastern schools, has found institutions so eager to enroll such children that there are not enough refugees to go around. Reason for their eagerness: presence of refugees in a school is more educational to the other children than books or newspapers...
...practice of offering tenants of Pacific States Savings & Loan Co. properties as much as 20% reductions in their rents if they paid them through Pacific States Auxiliary Corp., another wholly-owned subsidiary of State Guaranty Corp. P. S. Auxiliary meanwhile bought P. S. Savings & Loan certificates in the open market at about 55? on the dollar, turned them over to P. S. Savings & Loan in lieu of the rent due. If carried through, this smart practice could have enabled Odell to buy in all the certificates, leaving himself owner of all the company's real estate (now valued...
...profiting from Henry Wallace's "ever-normal granary" program. Ihe Buchhalter plan entailed simultaneously going short and long on wheat contracts (buying and selling at the same price). Then if the price rose 1?, the profit was immediately realized on the long side while the short was kept open until the price permitted it also to be closed out at a profit. Since the ever-normal-granary program was expected to stabilize wheat prices in a narrow range, the scheme visualized a steady realization of profits Apparently working all right until the wheat market broke a solid 30 points...