Word: opens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Retail sales totaled 1,062,733 cars, as against 840,481 last year. Out of its plenty, General Motors made a great and generous gesture. It dickered for a time with Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., then announced a contract for a $400,000,000 life, sickness and accident policy, open to any employe from President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., to Jacob Hazay, who works a grinding machine at the Detroit plant. Jacob Hazay earns $32 a week. To share in the insurance plan, he must pay a premium of $1.50 a month, or about one cent on every dollar...
...Votes (1907, 1910, 1911, 1915) to legalize Sunday baseball. A vote (1909) against Sunday theatre performances. A vote (1910) in favor of letting Jews keep their stores open on Sunday. When Editor White said that Assemblyman Smith had voted for "The Scarlet Woman of Babylon," he was stretching a point. But he had some basis of fact to go on. There used to be a fine distinction between hotels and saloons. Half-saloon, half-hotel were the assignation houses which evaded the intent of an act known as the Raines law, by renting regularly a specified number of bedrooms...
...could go shopping. For each article she buys, she gives a check, double the purchase price, asking for the balance in cash. Cautious department stores do not accept checks without investigation. Credit men telephone the bank, discover Miss T- has a $300 balance, apologize profusely and urge her to open a charge account. Graciously, she consents, moves on to another store to repeat the performance. But at 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon, before the array of checks can reach the bank, Miss T- withdraws her deposit, hastens home to you with her purchases and a tidy roll...
...communication with his lawyer, although the Polish prosecutor will endeavor to show that he is the head of an international ring of diamond smugglers. Reports that none of the swallowers were suffering more than a minor gripe, caused physicians to recall that sizable nuts & bolts, small spoons and open safety pins are not infrequently swallowed without fatality...
Using a queer,concave-faced, wooden putter, Thomas Armour won the Metropolitan Open Golf Championship last week, at the Shackamaxon Country Club, Westfield, N. J. John Farrell, National Open champion, finished second...