Word: packed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always surprised me that Harvard men, supposedly so resentful of authority, have submitted tamely to being treated like a pack of naughty boarding school boys...
...Theodore Roosevelt would have loudly branded such accusations as a "pack of lies" the day after they were made. A Calvin Coolidge would never have given them the dignity of his attention. But President Hoover is no Roosevelt with a brazen power to shout down the other fellow, no Coolidge with a skin time-toughened to public criticism. Three aspects of the Kelley charges made them especially obnoxious to Mr. Hoover: 1) they dealt with Oil, that horrid substance which so blackened the Harding Administration; 2) they appeared in the World, of all newspapers the one whose good...
...Polynesian natives. Because it stands so proudly high in a treacherous sea, ships can not approach Niuafou. Mail is sent to shore in tin cans. Hence the island is familiarly called Tin Can Island. Astronomers had no choice. To see the eclipse they had to dare a difficult landing, pack themselves and their apparatus upon the inhabitable two square miles of Niuafou with the Polynesians. For baggage they carried materials for one 65-ft. and one 63-ft. camera, numerous smaller cameras, food for two months, spectroscopes, lumber, notebooks. Setting up their apparatus they tested it for a month...
...collection of many shares in many industries used by Clevelander Cyrus Stephen Eaton in his spectacular bids for leadership in industry. About the Van Sweringen pyramid last week swirled gusts of rumor. And many were the tales in Manhattan that a vast shuffle in the Eaton pack had changed his hand...
...Eaton's pack, an ace is United Light & Power, far-flung utility holding company. What actually seems to have transpired was that the Eaton-Otis holdings in this and many another company* sold last week to Continental Shares, Inc., a holding company which Mr. Eaton controls. To accomplish this, Continental Shares Inc., had borrowed a large sum of money, some in Cleveland, more in New York. Since control of Continental Shares is firmly lodged with the Otis-Eaton interests, the deal seemed to have little actual significance except that Mr. Eaton's financial resources are ample...