Word: pit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three other men and two women. The police also found the place where Banker Luer had been hidden on a farm between East St. Louis and Madison. Shiny new screws in the floor of the tool shed aroused their suspicion. They ripped up planks, discovered beneath them a pit from which a narrow tunnel led into a dark cave-the cave where Luer was kept...
...when the Metropolitan Opera's orchestra was in its golden age under Arturo Toscanini, a dark slip of a boy with intense brown eyes and a rapt expression was usually concealed where he could watch and hear all that transpired, not on the stage, but in the orchestra pit, where his father played a viola. The father was a Belgian. The son, Leon Barzin, had been brought up in New Orleans but the rest of his youth was to be spent in Manhattan where, by the age of 20, he had achieved a second violinist's chair...
...make the most money." ¶ In Ohio last week eager purchasers were rushing out to the threshing floors, offering farmers $1 and $1.01 a bushel for wheat-the first time they have been offered $1 in three years. Threshing machine men upped their rental charges 25%. In the Chicago pit, wheat for May delivery touched $1.27¼ a bushel. But wheat was not the sensation of the pit. Rye outdid it. Rye (unfavored by Government restriction measures) touched $1.08½ for December delivery-jumped 23? a bushel in a week. Talk of a corner in rye by Dr. Edward...
...Yorkshire's West Riding, in the midst of the woolen industry, she joined her passion for story-telling to a lively interest in her surroundings. "As a child I used often to go to my father's mill, lean over the edge of the boiler pit and watch the various processes of cloth manufacture. My father was a man very highly skilled in all textile processes, and famous for this far beyond the walls of his own mill. . . ." Authoress Bentley went to Cheltenham and London for her education, then came back to Yorkshire to write about the things...
...Peek induced General Johnson to resign from the Army in 1919, accompany him to Moline. There as president and vice president they took over Moline Plow Co., set out with high hopes to make millions of their own. But they had picked a dead cock in the pit. as Mr. Baruch could have told them. Failing to get the financing they had been promised, they were forced to liquidate their company after a few luckless years. General Johnson took a fling alone in the farm implement business while Mr. Peek turned to cornstalks and farm relief...