Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Considering these factors, therefore BE IT RESOLVED that a committee of five, three Council members and two other undergraduates, be appointed to pick another committee of five, or more, present Juniors and Sophomores interested in this subject, to make a study of these four problems and submit a report to the Administration during the academic year 1937-38 or before...
...three months via Western Union 50,000 copies to 50,000 people with annual incomes of $7,500 or more. After the three months are up, Publisher Logan will try another 50,000, then another. Not only does he expect that advertisers will look with favor on this hand-picked slice of kid glove circulation, but he thinks that he will pick up some 5,000 permanent readers from each free list. His goal: 250,000 readers. "The present so-called 'class' magazines with small circulations are licked," says...
...model was found stretched dead on a bed. Beneath the bed was the almost naked body of the girl's mother, also murdered. In an adjoining room, pillowed in a pool of blood, stabbed through the skull eleven times by some sharp instrument such as an ice pick or an awl, was a murdered man, a roomer in the apartment...
...private bone to pick had the steel industry, for the President singled it out along with copper, as one of the commodities which had soared too high. The recent $6-per-ton boost, said he, was far more than was needed to cover increased labor costs. But the American Iron & Steel Institute figures that while higher prices will yield an additional $200,000,000, wages will be up $130,000,000; raw materials $85,000,000, leaving the industry $15,000,000 the worse. These calculations were on the basis of 1936 operations. With steel production now running...
...spot, renamed her the Joseph Conrad, prepared to sail her around the world, to "keep a form of art alive upon an earth which had grown, it thought, beyond the need of it." Applicants for the cadet part of his crew were plentiful but it took weeks to pick cadets who were not too obviously neurotic misfits. Of women applicants he could have had enough to pack the Joseph Conrad in a day. On Oct. 22, 1934, carrying a crew of eight nationalities, looking like the ghost of Bligh's Bounty, the 212-ton, three-masted Joseph Conrad sailed...