Word: pads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lean, dour, grey-haired, with black eyes, big ears and dark lines of concentration on his face, Al Munro Elias still spends all his spare time watching baseball games, marking each play nervously on a special pad. The Bureau office, where his brother Walter is general manager, is equipped with an adding machine. Al Munro Elias has his clerks operate it, uses their results to compile his own statistics in his head. He does most of his work at his apartment, except when visiting baseball training camps each spring. In 1928, when he was 56, Al Munro Elias lost...
...tenets of sound economics. Im-pressed by the resounding title of Congress of American Industry, metropolitan editors sent newshawks scurrying to the Waldorf-Astoria to record economic history in the making. When columns and columns of the news reports were printed one editor found enough meat in them to pad out a 120-word editorial...
...case my memory should fail or something." A couple from the cannery brought their four-month-old daughter. The whole Rotary Club, including Representative Wadsworth & Son James Jeremiah ("Jerry") who sits in the State Assembly, marched over from their weekly luncheon to press their fingers on a chemical pad, press them again on a sensitized card on which the prints then showed black...
Shuffling and reshuffling of partners pad the financial pages of the Press with personnel notices on the first day of every month but the same old firms continue to do business at the same old stands. One of the few big mergers of the year occurred last week when Theodore Prince & Co., bond brokerage specialists, was absorbed by Redmond & Co., whose senior partner is husky, hardworking, longheaded Henry Mason...
...Century and has been president for the last 30 years. A conservative. Vandyke-bearded gentleman of a very old business school, Sir Douglas never used to publish any annual report at all. If a stockholder wanted to find out how his company was doing, he had to take pad & pencil to the meeting where the report was read-usually so rapidly that no one could understand it. From Sir Douglas' grudging remarks, a stockholder usually gathered the impression that, what with rising taxes and general social unrest, the outlook for the sewing machine business was practically hopeless...