Word: pickups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steel is the biggest unit in the biggest of U. S. producer-goods industries. Compared to a 1937 profit of $94,944,358, U. S. Steel had a 1938 deficit of $7,755,914 -despite a final-quarter pickup in operations which earned a profit...
...There's a big pickup of interest in the game this year," Chester E. Sargent, a major in the field artillery and mentor of both Varsity and Freshman polo, declared yesterday as he sent his men through their third week of drill...
...political treatise on the art of deception. He believes that "the deceivers have nothing to learn from it, while the deceived have." His pupils are two Americans: Mr. W., a well-known U. S. politician and ex-jazz musician, regarded as the coming U. S. dictator, and Professor Pickup, a decayed Billy Sunday sort of fanatic, who originated "Neo-Sociology...
...buying cars during the last four years, John Public thought it considered most important in order of preference: dependability, safety, operating economy, comfort, appearance, smoothness, ease of control, pickup, speed, first cost...
Every Sunday night ten senders sat in a secluded room in Chicago's Merchandise Mart, concentrated gravely on cards and vegetables selected by a roulette wheel. Radio listeners tried to pickup the senders' thought waves, record the wheel's selections. In response to $600 worth of concentrating, 1,250,000 replies came in from some 100,000 receivers. In positive language the announcer told the listeners that they were picking them right with remarkable frequency. But Psychologist Goodfellow, after studying the results of 15 broadcasts, pricked Telepath McDonald's iridescent bubble. Though he found...