Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nellie Taylor Ross, winsome Wyoming widow who once presided over all lady Democrats as Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, now presides over all U. S. coinage & bullion as director of the Mint. Last month she made a trip to West Point to inspect the vast strong box she had had built in a corner of the Military Academy's reservation. Semi-sunken, its obdurate walls made of reinforced concrete, Mrs. Ross's strong box is to hold over a billion and a quarter dollars' worth of silver bullion purchased by the Treasury in Manhattan...
...Bond prices past low point...
Tony Fokker might have gone on to explain that he had his eye on a shipbuilding business to replace a U. S. aircraft career that ended when the Department of Commerce grounded his transport planes after the mysterious Rockne crash (TIME, April 6, 1931). But at that point a telephone extension buzzed. He caught up the receiver. From across 3,500 miles of sea came a familiar voice. "Hello, momma," boomed Fokker happily, and in mingled English and Dutch described to his mother in Holland the scene on New York City's Harlem...
...humid redolence of tobacco, Philip Morris cigarets are manufactured by virtually the standard process used by all the big popular brands-Turkish and U. S. tobaccos are mixed, sprayed with a special flavoring formula which gives each brand its own particular taste. Since taste is a big selling point, each brand's flavoring mixture is a trade secret, but the basis for all flavoring is rum. Only other ingredient cigaret companies reveal is a hygroscopic agent mixed with the tobacco to attract moisture. In most cigarets the hygroscopic agent is glycerin; Philip Morris uses diethylene glycol. The result...
...meet its interest payments. Exactly what PWA will do with its canal is still uncertain. According to present plans, it will turn the property over to National Park Service, which may restore the picturesque taverns and lock houses flanking the waterway. The 22-mile section between Washington and Point of Rocks, Md., it may turn into a boating and canoeing paradise. There were also rumors of an elaborate scheme to use part of the canal as right-of-way for a national highway between Washington and Gettysburg...