Word: pour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Publisher Peck, while continuing to move among Brooklyn aristocrats in town and out at Locust Valley, decided to gear his paper to the white-collar middle class, and he proceeded to pour money into it. He made the Times a typical "home"' paper, unsensational, non-crusading, bursting with local news and civic pride. He initiated a costly carrier delivery service, then an innovation in Greater New York (since copied by other Brooklyn papers). In less than ten years the Times reached 100,000 circulation. The Eagle still has more than twice as much advertising, but last year it lost...
...chosen work [the presidency of Chicago's First National Bank] and have no desire to desert it for the spotlight of the political arena.'' From the Columbia (Ky.) Traylor-for-President Club, however, fat envelopes urging support of Mr. Traylor's candidacy continued to pour...
...Geneva businessmen Peace is a business. As a business proposition, the City recently built a hall with stone facing on which is displayed a wooden sign: CONFERENCE pour la REDUCTION et pour la LIMITATION des ARMAMENTS. This conference has been in session more than a month (TIME, Feb. 8 et seq.) and from the 5,000 Delegates and hangers-on Geneva businessmen have already got back their money and made a profit...
...plant at Battle Creek since December, 1930, and he has made some startling discoveries concerning its use in mechanical factories. Machinery designed to turn out 165 pieces per minute is working at a 208 per minute rate. Wages are not reduced, but overhead is appreciably cut. Yet dividends pour forth as before. The secret is that the shorter shift is easier to handle, needs no lunch-hours and no replacements during lunch, and is more efficient. Shorter hours lessen the monotony and the production curve moves up, so that even the low spots are higher than before...
...references to the national scene, apart from its delineation of a program for the State, it was just the sort of paper to be expected from a conventional presidential candidate?care- fully balanced, shrewdly generalized, replete with phrases like bright empty bottles into which any man could pour his own meaning. Newsmen, overanxious to make a "story," outdid themselves reading national significance into his words. Excerpts...