Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Stock Exchange delivered to the Senate Banking & Currency Committee a long and miscellaneous list of 555 air-stock sellers. Politicians and the Press 'made a big to-do over the fact that J. P. Morgan & Co., than which no organization has at present less political pull, had sold 4,500 shares of United Aircraft fortnight before the Feb. 9 annulment order...
Western Pacific has not earned its fixed charges for three years. Given a year's time, however, Proprietor James thinks he can pull it through alive. The 200-mile link he built in California to connect Western Pacific with Great Northern, completed in 1931, has not yet revealed its full traffic possibilities. The Dotsero cutoff west of Denver, to be finished this year, is expected to direct transcontinental traffic to the Denver & Rio Grande-Western Pacific route (TIME...
Other CWA projects now in progress: 4,464 Indians to repair their own houses on Indian Reservations; 1,104 to excavate prehistoric Indian mounds for the Smithsonian Institution; 211 men to pull up seaside and swamp morning-glories, hosts of the sweet potato weevil; 198 men to remove debris from Alaskan rivers so salmon can swim up and spawn; 94 Indians to transport snowshoe rabbits to those of the Kodiak Islands that need to be restocked; 1,112 men to eradicate phony peach; a group to wash Manhattan's civic statues; unemployed colored girls to keep house for destitute families...
...Philadelphia, knew the department store trade. Their problem was to consolidate manufacturing units, to sell all that American Woolen produced, to guess what styles the public wanted before the public knew itself. A most modest man, Mr. Warner warned newshawks to wait two years to see if he could pull American Woolen out of the red before writing him up as a business hero worthy of the laurels of the Press. At the end of the second year the company's deficit was $7,269,000-the worst on record. Mr. Warner certainly did not look heroic...
...house and car, he thought he ought to be happy. But Walter was no fool. He had not worked for Tasker long before he knew his boss was a crook. But by that time he was an accessory to many a damning irregularity. As he watched Tasker pull himself out of one ticklish position after another, Walter began to hope that everything would eventually be all right. But even Tasker could not beat the Depression. The inevitable rumor started the inevitable investigation. Tasker's companies collapsed. More families went on the dole. Boss Tasker...