Word: pour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Protests against rate-upping began to pour in upon President Hoover and the I. C. C. The U. S. Fisheries Association, the League for Independent Political Action, the Northwest Retail Coal Dealers Association, the Wyoming Stock Dealers Association and Senators Caraway, Brookhart, Shipstead were among the first protestants. The National League of Commission Merchants said that the roads last year got $268,000.000 for hauling 973.605 carloads of fresh fruit and vegetables that sold for $489.000.000, warned that 15% rate increase would raise fruit and vegetable prices...
Leader of the impeachment drive was U. S. Congressman Edward Hull Crump, Democratic boss of Memphis. Cried one of his Memphis henchmen in the Tennessee House: "Don't let anybody tell you Governor Horton's not listening to Lea and Caldwell. They pour water into his ear and tell him it's raining." Defenders of Governor Horton argued that the attempt at impeachment was "nothing more or less than a political conspiracy to overthrow the State government and seize its reins by a few ambitious men." They insisted no specific wrong-doing was charged against...
...chit. What tickled Manhattan most about Princess Chrysanthemum was the story of how she got her little Paris suits and gowns and hats. On the recent official visit of Their Royal Highnesses in France, representatives of the big Paris houses called obsequiously, begged for the honor of creating costumes pour son Altesse, expected to charge top prices, for the Japanese Imperial Family is known to be vastly rich...
...market to be worth while on the opposite side of the deep valley will make the crest market, the sharp-witted traders will benefit for and the good-sized profit as from the basement to the roof will multiply for the small seed money and an occasion to pour a water over the sleeping ears...
...stacks of Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co.'s plant at Trail, British Columbia, pour billows of smoke heavy with sulphur fumes. The fumes drift across the nearby international border, enter the State of Washington, permeating the broad valley of the Columbia River, poisoning orchards, crops, cattle...