Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the hands of three private trustees "to give practical shape to current expressions of good will toward King George and at the same time do anything I can to support the National Government, particularly Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin.'' Seated on a platform at Oxford University recently, plain Lord Nuffield. who grew up in Oxfordshire from bicycle tinkerer to motors tycoon, was so affected by the intoxicating words in which Oxonians thanked him for giving their medical school $6,250,000 that he got to his feet and cried out he would give Oxford another...
Over at the Exchequer, Chancellor Chamberlain, as sympathetic civil servants readily explain, has been unable for some years to receive "distinguished Americans" because he is a plain, blunt Birminghamer who would have to tell the Yankees to their faces what he thinks of debt-minded "Uncle Shylock" (see col. 2). With all this in mind, the Prime Minister and U. S. Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham were guests at a House of Commons dinner tendered them last week by a group of M. P.'s pledged "to make contacts with Americans interested in affairs and visiting this country...
Because it is a low-lying alluvial plain. the entire coastal fringe of Louisiana is as soggy as a piece of fresh bread dunked in soup. Crisscrossed by bayous and canals. the Louisiana salt marshes cover nearly 20,000 sq. mi., worthless except as a wildlife sanctuary and for many rich "domes" of oil and sulphur which lie beneath. To locate these deposits is hard work. In most places the swamp is so treacherous it will engulf a man standing upright. In most places no normal vehicle can proceed. Prospectors have tried boats, rafts, carts with big wheels but still...
...Many stock buyers seem never to have got over the idea that a stock is a bargain just because its price is low." declared Mr. Gay as he thumped his desk. "I can't stress too much the plain fact that just because a stock is selling at a low price is no guarantee it is cheap. A stock can be selling as low as $2 and still be the dearest security in the country. Make no mistake about it: the right-minded people in Wall Street don't want to see the public rushing into securities without...
...platonic" sojourn at the Statler Hotel. Not long thereafter Detective Krone approached Mr. Stampleman, arranged for $5,000 to persuade Miss Conboy not to sue Mr. Stampleman for doping and assaulting her. "I'd have gladly paid $10,000," snapped Razorman Stampleman. "That affidavit of hers was just plain murder." The extortion case suddenly collapsed as a mistrial when the prosecution mentioned to the jury a previous indictment of Krone & Ross for similarly extorting $12,900 from Alfred Emanuel Smith Jr. after he had spent a night in a Manhattan hotel with a blonde (TIME...