Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stores, and "the business was founded on the precisely opposite idea," he soon found himself forced into it by the exciting necessity of expansion. Soon the U. S. was too small for him, he invaded Canada and England, bought the old British firm of Boots. United Drug's peak year (1929) grossed over $106,000,000. But Liggett had his downs as well as his ups. In 1921 he sank his personal fortune in a falling market, had to be rescued by loyal associates. In 1928 United Drug merged with huge Drug, Inc. to dominate the drug trade...
...from Die Meistersinger, for which he made his own English translation. On a different occasion critics would have commented lengthily on Baritone Lawrence Tibbett who was stalwartly enacting his first Hans Sachs. But the evening was Walter Damrosch's and the time one for testimonials. Applause reached its peak after Mrs. August Belmont had spoken of his "unsurpassed influence in developing among the American people a love for great music." Excessively modest was the hero's reply: He felt like a beggar made king for a day. He owed everything to his father "who emigrated from the land...
...tooth paste company, . goes on the road for his rival selling dentifrice with liquor flavors. Complicated principally by the necessity for outwitting her father's star salesman (William Gargan) while she falls in love with him, Angela Twitchell's career reaches its peak when, at a Chicago drug convention, she sees to it that her rival and fiance arrives late in a plane whose pilot she has hired to advertise cocktail tooth paste in skywriting...
Apparently the long wrangle in Congress over the Work Relief Bill has had only one effect on the President's plans. Originally it was intended to get the peak of the work program--the employment of 7,000,000 men--under way in October. Today, Mr. Roosevelt said he believed the top would not be touched until November...
...reported that Medica, while practicing in the Harvard pool during the past week, has swum world record figures; while Gilhula is at the very peak of his career, having shattered new records in practice races and wiped out several records held by Medica...