Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...community, half are made on churches, not on homes or stores. Since traditionally churches are safe long-term credit risks, it is questionable whether the bank really needs the accounts which Hudgins solicits in his sermons to back the church mortgages. It appears that he is simply trying to pick up accounts by using the churches as a medium of free advertising for the bank...
...hurry. Both companies must submit their final designs to the Government by Sept. 6, as must General Electric and the Pratt & Whitney division of United Aircraft Corp., which are battling for the $6 billion worth of jet-engine business. The airlines and the Federal Aviation Agency hope to pick two winners by January, award a contract to build a prototype followed by production models that will fly commercially...
...trolley") against the overhead electric wire. He can see where the motorman stood, his foot on the button that rang the bell ("One clang for stopping, two for starting"). He will also learn, if he listens, that by 1918 the bobbed-hair and spats set had their pick of some 100,000 trolleys and 45,000 miles of track to take them out to the ball game or off to the amusement park, or even to tea dances at Philadephia's Bellevue-Stratford...
...could make laughter, but not without opening a wound. "Truth is the most valuable thing we have," Twain wrote. "Let us economize it." "To be good is noble, but to show others how to be good is nobler-and no trouble." "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between...
When Oilman John Mecom bought the Houston Chronicle six months ago in a package deal that included other, more valuable properties, his friends revived the old joke that his wife had simply asked him to pick up a paper on the way home. Mecom has that kind of reputation. Right up with H. L. Hunt and J. Paul Getty among Texas' biggest independent oil producers, Mecom has added to his rich oil empire by picking up fish-meal plants, a drugstore, ranches, and other assorted enterprises from here and there. He had never tried a paper before, and last...