Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...designer named Edward W. Morris, founded Collins-Morris Shoe Co. at Marine, Mo. (capacity: 400 pairs of children's shoes a day). Six weeks later, with a bank balance of $22 and a $300 payroll to meet, William Collins borrowed $300 on his car. Then sales began to pick up and Collins-Morris eventually moved to St. Louis. It now has three plants which upped their business in the first half of 1938 54% over the same period last year, against a decline for the industry...
...Vice President Donald Nelson to take it), Elmer Andrews is lucky that so far he has not antagonized either C. I. O. or A. F. of L. But he will have his work cut out for him enforcing the Wages-&-Hours law and managing the boards he will pick to adjust wages and hours in specific industries...
...This New York, his solemn column of social chitchat in the New York Herald-Tribune, Columnist Beebe reported: "It appears that the lads of the upper forms have their own debating teams, pick their own subjects and conduct their oratorical tournaments without let or hindrance from their instructors. Their last jousting was due to fall . . . just before close of school for the summer. . . . It was only toward the end that the headmaster, the Rev. Endicott Peabody, learned the topic under discussion, descended with outraged screams and howls upon the entire program, called everything off and retired to his study mopping...
...separate house, speak only French, conduct all classes in French, master by year's end better than the equivalent of fourth year French conversation, composition, history, literature. (No other language is offered, on the grounds that it is better to learn one language well than to pick up a quickly forgotten smattering of several). Fourth Formers study the arts. Fifth Formers the sciences, Sixth Formers history and literature, closely correlated. Each successive year the subjects of previous years are applied to the new field of study...
...swung around and stopped. All the passengers but one sat strapped in their seats, bewildered, stunned, but alive. The eighth passenger, a woman, was hurled clear, died an hour later in a Billings hospital. Pilot Bullock, shaken but unhurt, was amazed. "It just didn't seem to pick up, once we got in the air," he said...