Word: pocketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Copenhagen, a bread crust lodged in the throat of Mechanic Anders Hansen. He choked, strangled, took out his pocket knife, cut into his throat below the bulging crust, saved his life...
...over, Wallace was appointed editor of the Transvaal's largest newspaper, and on the proceeds he played with notorious bulls and bears of the Johannesburg market. He made $12,000 one day, lost $20,000 the next, and landed back in London with exactly three shillings in his pocket...
...nine-year career has been both breathless and bewildering. In 1921. it was a Morgan-weaned youngster with the Cuban and Porto Rican telephone systems in its pocket. In 1924, it branched suddenly and surprisingly into Spain, began modernizing a hopelessly antiquated telephone system. Four years later it had added a vast manufacturing unit (International Standard Electric Corp.); two cable companies (All-American Cables, Inc., Commercial Cable Co.); a telegraph company (Postal Telegraph and Cable Corp.); a radio company (Mackay Radio and Telegraph Co.). It had invaded five states (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay) of Latin America. Last week, unnoticed...
They go clanking across the bar of the gambling table and drag at the tourist's pocket. One silver dollar purchases two cocktails; two whiskies; two tots of rum. Beer is 10 or 15 cents per glass, depending on the glitter of the dispensary...
...producing lands to the Prairie Oil & Gas Co. These properties-cream of the Seminole, Kay, Kansas, and North Texas fields-yield 34,000 barrels a day, and will bring Prairie's gross daily production up to about 105,000 barrels. They put into Producer Slick's pocket between $50,000 and $60,000 per day. Reports from Tulsa put the sale price at $40,000,000; but Prairie Chairman-of-the-Board W. S. Fitzpatrick said it was less, while refusing to give actual figures...