Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your address to the Chamber of Deputies in which you touched on the decrease in the cost of living you said that in Rome one may buy bread for as little as 1.30 lire per kilo [about 5? per pound] and you added I have bought it myself...
...contents. It contains 600,000 entries, lists & defines 122,000 more words than any other general dictionary in the world. Editor-in-Chief William Allan Neilson, president of Smith College, headed an editorial staff of 262, plus 207 specialists for technical terms (Harvard's Dean Roscoe Pound for law, Johns Hopkins' retiring President Joseph Sweetman Ames for physics, aeronautics). To 114 sharp-eared experts went the job of settling the pronunciation arguments of 120,000,000 U. S. citizens...
...tons of virgin copper, 9,500 tons of scrap. The Secretary of the Code Authority, Ralph R. Eckert, was appointed Sales Clearing Agent, whose prime function is to keep sales within the quota. Producers must file with him a copy of all sales and the price per pound. Price changes must be filed 24 hours in advance, thus preventing one company from stealing a march on its competitors. The code specifically forbids destructive price cutting, gives the Code Authority power to fix prices in an emergency or suspend code provisions if they go too high. Actually, with...
Candy is not as simple as beefsteak & potatoes. It comes in fancy trademarked packages, in plain packages, by the pound, by the piece and, most important of all, by the bar. It is sold from dusty bins in crossroads general stores, across immaculate counters in swank city candy shops, by slot machines, by drug stores, by department stores, by grocery stores, by stationery stores, by restaurants, by hot-dog stands, by newsstands, by filling stations, even by blacksmith shops. For these retail outlets some 1,000 wholesale candy makers, of which hardly 400 are national, scrabble endlessly, hope their products...
Nine-cent copper was preceded by the broadest buying in months (see p. 56). Cocoa trading (5½? per Ib.) was the heaviest of the year. Hides were strong, and sugar hit a four-year high at 1.88? per pound for May futures. Wool was inactive at 90? per Ib. Silver trading has slowed to a practical standstill since announcement of a proposed 50% tax on all profits derived from sales of bullion to the Government, and the price has hung around 45? per ounce. Side by side with climbing commodity prices this spring has been an expanding public interest...