Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sorel, Quebec the freighter Königsberg, cargoing zinc oxide to Canadian consignees, received instructions, as did many other German vessels, to full-steam home before she could unload. Defying Canadian Revenue Department orders to stay put until she had done so, she cut her mooring lines, nosed off without warning. But, some 100 miles down the St. Lawrence, a police boat overhauled her. Its officers, acting for consignees who claimed they had paid up but had not received their oxide, held the Konigsberg's skipper on larceny charges...
Next day, to the abandoned two-story plant of Fashionmaid Hosiery Co. at Vankirk and Keystone Streets went the 80 to clean up, overhaul the machines, put up a new sign (Colonymaid Hosiery Corp.) and get ready for production. It was their plant. They had put up $300 each by drawing on savings, getting loans on their life insurance and cars. They had high hopes and some reason for them...
...Luke's unemployed parishioners. He told them to go into business for themselves. That first group raised $11,000 and within a few months more Rector Colony, their president, had wangled a $15,000 RFC loan. A small vacant mill was bought, 13 ancient knitting machines were put in shape and Colony Hosiery went into production. At first, without working capital to buy silk, Colony Hosiery took orders only on commission. After eight months in business it now buys its own silk, has advance orders for two years (mostly gathered by President Colony in frequent trips to Manhattan...
...shares additional at $2. But since Loft had lost money every year since 1934 this did not look like too promising an investment. Last year Loft stock got down to 75½ a share and its operating loss was $946,151. Meanwhile, with the aid of the money Phoenix put up, Loft waged a lawsuit...
...Long Island, American Bullfighter Sidney Franklin, decked out in cerise cape and a sheathed wooden sword, got ready to put on a bull-dodging act for a New York World's Fair rodeo. On hand were representatives of the S. P. C. A., 200 spectators, a bull in a corral. When somebody opened the gate to the corral, nothing happened. To attract the bull's attention cowboys did a dance in front of the gate. The bull didn't budge. Steers were driven into the chute as decoys. The bull looked the other way. Twenty minutes later...