Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some interpreters thought "three corners of the world" referred to the three aggressive anti-Comintern allies - Germany, Italy, Japan. At any rate, the number of big bold British speeches last week was evidence that the Chamberlain Government (as well as others) were building a backfire against the possible fire of a big March international crisis...
Celotex was Bror Dahlberg's creation. In 1911, having been everything from a high-speed typist to freight-rate counselor, he found himself vice president of Minnesota & Ontario Paper Co. One of its by-products was a rigid insulating board called Insulite. Dahlberg, several M. & 0. associates and Insulite's inventor, one Carl Muench, next devised a similar board made out of bagasse, the fibrous residue of chewed-up sugarcane, named it Celotex and began making it commercially in 1921. By 1929 annual sales of their brown insulating board had reached $1,479,000 and President Dahlberg...
...intercoastal steamship trade is a roughhouse, cutthroat business. Its brawling history has been marked alternately by ruinous rate wars and periods of comparative calm in which shippers between Atlantic and Pacific ports of the U. S. have banded together in voluntary associations to keep cargo rates profitable...
...served on Vermont's State Board of Education, found that small village schools were so hard up for chalk, books, blackboards, maps, to say nothing of gymnasiums and decently paid teachers, that they would gladly pawn even their academic freedom for a little ready cash. This, at any rate, is the premise of Seasoned Timber...
...last the hapless Crimson basketball forces enter a game in which they cannot be classed as underdogs when they entertain Yale in the Indoor Athletic Building tonight. As a matter of fact, with the advantage of playing in their own back yard, Coach Fesler's cagers rate the favorite's role against Coach Loeffler's erratic quintet...