Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Business began to pick up. Canadian Colonial set up its own shop, hired its own pilots. This spring Trans-Canada Airlines went into operation between Montreal and Vancouver, and Janas found himself operating the eastern U. S. link of an overnight run from Manhattan to British Columbia. Meanwhile, a modest advertising appropriation began to get Canadian Colonial its share of traffic between Manhattan and Montreal...
Bindery troubles have delayed the distribution of this year's Senior Album until Wednesday, June 7, it was announced last night by Richard H. Sullivan '39. Subscribers will be able to pick up their books in the Coolidge Room in Lowell House beginning at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning...
...youths (16 to 25), but today youth is outnumbered 2,200 to 1,000 and by 1960 it will be outnumbered 3,000 to 1,000. A Commission report* blamed this situation on a decline in "fertility among American women." Commission Member Dorothy Canfield Fisher dissented testily: "Why pick on the women? It takes two for that...
...Columbus (to lady Democrats): "It does not make any difference who the Republicans nominate, nor for that matter who the Democrats pick, it will be a Democratic victory...
...stayed mostly indoors as a 60-mile gale whipped the Empress, tossing up mighty waves that washed over her gunwales. The wallowing sent many of the retinue discreetly to their cabins, but Their Majesties proved fine sailors. In the teeth of the gale, they watched the battle cruiser Repulse pick up a cask of mail dropped from the Empress and turn about for home, the crew singing as a parting salute, a gale-borne toast, Here's Health Unto His Majesty...