Word: papered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over the country, 100 inspectors for the U. S. Department of Agriculture were busily grading turkeys as raisers brought them in from the runs. Last year 200,000 birds were graded. This year 500,000 were expected to pass governmental scrutiny. Shrewd bird-buying housewives looked for a paper bracelet around their turkey's leg, placed there by the U. S. graders as a certificate of quality. Best young turkeys were labelled "U. S. Prime," next best "U. S. Choice." Older birds were marked "U. S. Prime Mature," and "U. S. Choice Mature...
Five years ago the greyish, absorbent paper upon which the publishers of the 1,939 U. S. dailies spread the country's news, cost $75 per ton. Today it costs $62 per ton. The decline in price is cited as the reason the newsprint makers, notably International Paper Co., have been going into the business of selling waterpower to make a side profit, and buying newspapers to ensure their market (TIME, Apr. 22, et seq.). The possibility of a price rise was cited by the American Newspaper Publishers' Association, convened last week at Asheville...
...newspapers (notably Chicago's Tribune, Manhattan's Times) own their own paper mills. Most newsprint is bought from the great International (more than twice as big as its nearest competitor), from Great Northern Paper Co., Canada Power & Paper Corp., Abitibi Power & Paper Co. International is not making money on its pulp product but it denied last week that it was planning a price rise, professed ignorance of what the publishers' resolution might mean...
...Market had really arrived? Professor Fisher may stand a discredited prophet, yet apt appeared his analogy between the break on the market and a run on a bank. The Bank was U. S. Industry. Assets of the bank were the real assets of U. S. Industry. Stocks were the paper money which the bank had issued. Now all banks, even the Federal Reserve System, issue more money in paper than they have gold in their vaults. Every bank would be broken if all its depositors simultaneously attempted to exchange paper for gold. And, unhappily, the Industrial Bank had held itself...
Taylor knew other whites. In a dive, he sold them opium at $1 a paper. Another place was a bowling-alley. When one bowler saw him bunching the pins for the next man, Taylor had to leave through a window. Life was not all work. The white boys had a game "Stray Goose." One boy ran, until caught and pummeled. Taylor helped. When he was 16 he put on a cowboy's costume and strutted to a dance. The girls were nicer than Big Maude's. He began to dream and want money. He told his mother what...