Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate is that, with my limited time, I have not been able to get a client who had little enough intellect to employ me. I have tried, however. ... I do not recall that I ever took many lawsuits for corporations in my life. Certainly none against a poor man. I am on the other side. I sue the railroads. I sue the corporations. I sometimes defend people charged with crime. I had a pretty good practice representing employes under the Federal Employes' Liability Act. Under this bill I could not represent any of them. . . . The sorriest job I ever...
...Wilson observers spotted two faint spots too far from the solar equator to be survivors of the old cycle, too small to have any effect on earth. Last week near the sun's eastern edge erupted a whirling blot 16,000 miles across. Astronomers predicted magnetic storms and poor radio reception during the twelve days before the sun's rotation wheeled it out of sight, thought it might grow big enough to be seen with the unaided eye through smoked glass...
Famed for their telescopic eyesight, grain traders long ago spotted a poor rye harvest for this July. They began accumulating large rye commitments, sat back to wait for a price rise. On April 1 they had good news. The rye crop was reported in the poorest condition in 55 years. Persistent lack of rain had parched the grain fields of the Dakotas, biggest of U.S. rye producers. Demand for rye on the other hand, normally 35,000,000 bu. per year, would be bigger, since at least 5,000,000 bu. were needed in the whiskey trade. Only one factor...
Backbone of the toy trade is the standard low and medium priced lines whose sales during Depression ranked in stability with food, clothing, shelter. Prices at the fair last week were up 10% to 20% but toymen reported the best early buying in years. Last year fair buying was poor, yet the final Christmas rush was so heavy that they were unable to fill orders...
...executives have been known to wager that not one person out of ten could name A. & P.'s president. "Outside" man for the country's biggest grocery chain, John A. Hartford nonetheless eludes public appearance, is not listed in Poor's Register of Directors. Few housewives know that it was he who launched A. & P.'s first economy store in 1912 on a busy corner in Jersey City and opened 7,500 more in the next 900 days. In Manhattan where he belongs to no clubs, lunches alone at the Biltmore on crackers and milk...