Word: pack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there's another Japanese pack of 200 cards which the women use to play a game of poets very popular with them. And then the Chinese pack with the caricatures of famous gamblers...
...contract fiend or even if your tasters run only as far as Old Maid, you might be interested to know that there is a pack of Hindustani cards in the archives of Widener which was invented by a king's wife to make him stop pulling hairs out of his beard...
...Hindustani pack is composed of 96 round cards divided into eight suits. In the first four suits the values run from one to ten, with one the lowest. In the last four suits they run the opposite way with ten the lowest. A few of the more picturesque names of the suits are Ghulam, Slave; Chang, Harp; and Burart, Royal Diploma. The name of the pack is Gunja-Kha, which means "Relieving Scalp." They were invented to keep the hands of the king busy so that he would not scratch his head, or, as another version of the tale...
Back in 1930 there seemed little likelihood that Jim Dole and his pineapples would ever get themselves into financial straits. Pineapples for U. S. consumption are practically a Hawaiian monopoly and the Dole company, along with California Packing and Libby, McNeill & Libby, dominated the industry. In 1930 the pack was 11,300,000 cases, of which Mr. Dole put up 4,500,000 cases. First Hawaiian sight glimpsed by travelers arriving from the "mainland" is an enormous pineapple (really a 400-ton water tank in disguise) on the roof of the Dole cannery. And along with Diamond Head. Pearl Harbor...
...about two years to grow a pineapple and Mr. Dole was reaping in 1932 as he had sown in 1930. Result: unmarketable pineapples piled up in Mr. Dole's factory, their stench polluting the Hawaiian air. Further result: pineapples dropped from $5.20 a case to $2.70; the 1932 pack totaled 847,000 cases against more than 4,800,000 in 1931; and in 1932 the Dole company lost (mostly on inventory) $8,448,882. In December 1932, Mr. Dole was promoted to a semi-honorary chairmanship and Mr. Richards, backed by the Castle & Cooke sugar firm, became...