Word: pocketbooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...society, is the owner of a notable collection of etchings, engravings, manuscripts and rare books. When he decided few months ago to make a career for himself in politics, leaders of Philadelphia's Republican machine warmly welcomed a young man with so potent a name, so fat a pocketbook. Candidate Penrose, who owns a 125-acre estate on the Main Line at swank Devon where he takes his own and neighbors' small children for rides on his mile-long miniature railroad (see cut), promptly established a residence in Philadelphia by renting an apartment, the address of which...
...putting out a low-priced car within the reach of almost anyone with a job. So will the radio industry, the ready-made garment industry and all business men who have participated in building up the great consumer industries by getting their prices down within reach of the average pocketbook...
...trim, uniformed figure in Kansas City's Union Station bustled a matronly commuter, bearing a pocketbook. "I just found this, conductor," explained she, thrusting the pocketbook into the impeccably gloved hands of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd...
...Chain worked out a semi-automatic process for quick anchor-chain production, supplied the entire Wartime anchor-chain requirements of the U. S. Government. Shortly after the Armistice, Mr. Lashar issued an advertisement headed "The Honor in Our Discharge from the Service," said that the company was "poorer in pocketbook" on account of government contracts, that "there has been no taint of profiteering in our escutcheon." He built himself a million-dollar, 100-room residence at Fairfield, Conn., and the company, rapidly expanding, acquired Page Steel & Wire Co. and two small steel companies, sources of raw material...
...night last week I was at a house and drunk and a-lay across the bed and Coonhunter laid down aside me and went through my pockets and took my pocketbook with six cents and my keys. Last night it was I got to thinkin' about this and the longer I thought the madder I got because I needed my keys about unlockin' things. Here I was unable to get into my place without crawlin' in the window. I lived there and I had a right nice place. I had me a hot plate and as good...