Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shortage of those eminently bourgeois institutions, savings banks, seemed particularly to bother Commissar Zverev. who deplored that "430 districts of the Union are completely deprived of savings institutions." He promised to open this year 5,700 new savings banks. Finally he gave a sweeping pledge to "rationalize" the now almost infinitely complex taxation system of the Soviet Union, announced some progress already made: "We have rationalized in the food industry where, instead of 608 tax rates, we have introduced but 167. We are also revising the taxation system in the wool, cotton and silk industries. But this is not enough...
...Joseph Brummer. Same day, St. Louis newspapers carried a pathetic story about the eviction of a family of eight for failure to pay $15 a month rent. The conjunction of these news items proved too much for the editorial sense of the St. Louis Star-Times, which published an open letter to the cat informing it that its "visit" was ill-timed. Wrote the Star-Times...
...start Thingumabob bobbled. He was way back in seventh place at the end of the first sixteenth. Then he began to move up. At the end of the first furlong he was in second place, coming up in an open switch on the inside of Ariel Toy, the pacemaker. Suddenly Ariel Toy closed the switch by cutting towards the rail. Thingumabob reared, then crumpled. His right front ankle had snapped above the fetlock. He limped to the outside fence, fell to his knees, gallantly lifted himself to his feet again as the track veterinarian shot him dead...
...unanimously called Green Lake and Duck Lake. All wear uniforms of blue corduroy pants or knickers, blue shirts and socks. Uniformed likewise are the faculty (31 this summer), members of competent U. S. orchestras and music schools. Since 1931, NBC has broadcast concerts from the Music Camp's open-air Interlochen Bowl. New this year was a Radio Workshop, whose members wrote scripts for the weekly NBC broadcasts, watched NBC technicians at work...
...Floyd Bennett Field, a ladder was carried to the cabin door, but no one emerged. The doorhandle wiggled, police tugged from outside, but the door stayed shut. Said a bystander: "Now they'll have to go back to Germany and get the key." Finally the door popped open. Brisk Captain Alfred Henke emerged, said: "We've been sitting down for more than 24 hours. Now we want to stand up and get rested...