Word: packed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...begun when he built the town's first big hotel, put up its first skyscraper office building and a $40,000 opera house. There, as age crept upon him, he confined himself to a room in the hotel he had built, played solitaire with a soiled and antiquated pack of cards which measured three inches through...
...with an order in council. Last week Comrade Litvinov agreed to free the two engineers if His Majesty were "advised" (i. e. ordered by the British Cabinet) to revoke the order in council. In Moscow the engineer-prisoners knew nothing of this dickering. Suddenly their cell door clanged open. "Pack your kits!" barked the Soviet warden. Nervously, not knowing whether they might be going to Siberia or worse, the two Englishmen packed. "Now come this way. March!" Engineers Thornton and MacDonald marched down a series of corridors and out into an open courtyard-just the place for a firing squad...
...dollar. Nearly 20,000,000 lb. of oil tins were recently ordered for the Far East where after the oil is used they are freely bought & sold for homebuilding, wagon repairs and other purposes. In the U. S. can-makers' inventories are low and a large fruit & vegetable pack is expected. The Hawaiian pineapple pack is estimated at 8,000,000 cases against 5,000,000 last year. Messrs. Moore, Reid & Leeds wound up and ran their companies like small boys playing with toy trains. When they retired with enormous promoting profits, they carried the same methods into their...
...Ruthless," grumbled the official refugees as they stood on the Saint Lazare platform. Many had had six clays or less to sell or sublet their homes at a loss, dismiss their servants, recall children from school, wind up their bureaus' affairs, pack up, get out. The William L. Fingers of Paris fondled a month-old baby. Their plight was no less unpleasant than that of able Chief Commercial Attache Fayette W. Allport, who had recently given up a $25,000-a-year job to return to the service. Behind them they left two Commerce representatives to keep each other...
...Press gave chase in a hysterical pack. More than a chase, it was a field day. Here at last was J. P. Morgan where the Press could get at him. Hearings were delayed while cameramen swarmed around him undeterred. Feature writers eyed his every move, ambushed him during every recess. All were astonished by his amiable submission, in which he admittedly had been coached by his counsel. John William Davis, and by Partner Thomas W. Lamont. onetime newsman...