Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months rich U. S. citizens have been acutely aware of the fact that sooner or later the New Deal was going to run greedy fingers into their pants' pockets and pick out more of the money they had been saving for their heirs. In June President Roosevelt formally initiated this operation by proposing to Congress his taxation-for-social-reform program. Thereafter even the dullest and most irresponsible millionaire could see that, unless he started passing on his capital under the present estate and gift taxes, his heirs would get considerably less than he intended under the revenue rates...
...highest prices since Depression. Thumbing through the catalogs of Fasig-Tipton Co., which conducts the auctions, horse buyers last week had their choice of 550 yearlings. Colonel Edward Riley Bradley with nearly 50 for sale offered, as usual, to bet even money against anyone who thought he could pick a yearling at the auctions which would win a race the following year...
Invaluable to any fly are the pads, two on each of its six feet, which secrete a sticky fluid and enable the fly to traverse vertical surfaces and ceilings. But as a magnet picks up nails, those pads pick up germs which are shed at every step. The appalling trail of potential infection which a restless fly leaves may be shown, the Institute stated, by causing the insect to walk across glass surfaced with sterile gelatin. Soon the footprints are visible under the microscope-outlined by teeming colonies of bacteria...
...London native cabaret girls are plentiful & cheap but, to pick up the imported U.S. article, choosy Englishmen must drop in at Mayfair's two new topnotch hotels, Dorchester House & Grosvenor House...
...roustabout who drew a pistol. Hardin, of course, killed him on the spot. When he fell in love a rival tried to take advantage of his sentimental state by robbing him. Hardin merely dropped his money to the floor, then killed the rival when he stooped over to pick it up. Not so deadly a shot as "Wild Bill" Hickok or the great King Fisher, Hardin was craftier and faster on the draw than any man of his time...