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...fact that, lying 1,000 mi. east or west of good steel markets, some 65% of its normal steel business has been the manufacture of rails. Since railroads have not yet begun buying rails, Colorado Fuel & Iron did not feel the force of the last three months' pick-up in the business...
After the race, Yale's varsity and a pick-up crew of Harvard junior varsity and freshmen prepared to leave for California, for the new intercollegiate regatta over the Olympic Course at Long Beach...
...typical Delmar character, the cab driver, George Raft, and the pick-up fall in love. He becomes a garage owner, and they live happily in the suburbs until a hard-boiled society girl overcomes Mr. Raft. At the same time Sylvia Sidney's jealous husband breaks out of jail and goes to the house in the suburbs prepared to kill his wife's paramour. Here matters become complicated but the mud sinks to the bottom of the vortex, and Sylvia Sidney and George Raft miraculously emerge, triumphant...
Unlike the existing airlines, which delegate their ground handling to Postal Telegraph or Railway Express Agency, Air Express Corp. will perform its own pick-up and delivery, thus insure full, permanent control of its business sources...
...nation was, of course, still surviving all these misfortunes. And September had showed a slight pick-up in employment. Bank failures were disappearing. Here & there factory chimneys began to smoke again. After many a false alarm business seemed in the act of struggling back to its feet. But there was abroad in the land a spirit of unrest such as the country had not known since the War. Then the spirit had been directed outward, against a foreign enemy. Now it was an internal trouble, the country contemplating itself...