Word: pocketbooks
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...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...
With two floors of his Ritz Towers in Manhattan made ready to receive Mr. Hearst this week, some observers suspected that the real reason he was leaving California was that his mansions and estates there were proving too great a drain on his pocketbook...
...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...