Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard, Yale and Princeton men, Browning, King & Co. means college clothes. To railroad conductors, bell hops and steamship officers, Browning, King means uniforms. The 112-year-old clothing firm virtually outfitted the gold rush of '49. John Hazard Browning, descendant of a Rhode Island settler who bought a "dwelling house and two lots of acres . . . for ?3 in wampum" had been in the clothing business 27 years when news of gold at Suiter's Mill burst upon New York. He packed clipper ships with pants and coats as fast as they could be sewed together, sent them around...
...been trying to sell his plot for a few hundred dollars was offered $1,500. "I wouldn't take $4,000 for it now," said he. Storekeepers got ready to pitch hot dog stands near the orchard, talked of building a hotel as a state-wide oil rush seemed imminent. But Cleveland Petroleum Corp. had quietly leased most of the land around the orchard, shut the public...
...Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. As a finale, the Negroes defend their homes from a white-trash mob led by a red-headed bully named Mitch, as lively a scene as ever came from the pages of Hugo or Dumas. When the white stevedores rush to the aid of the besieged blacks, the play's strictly partisan audience found itself cheering not for the symbolism of a workers' united front, but simply for a thrilling rescue...
...standard low and medium priced lines whose sales during Depression ranked in stability with food, clothing, shelter. Prices at the fair last week were up 10% to 20% but toymen reported the best early buying in years. Last year fair buying was poor, yet the final Christmas rush was so heavy that they were unable to fill orders...
...went out. The men's pay had been cut again & again. They were driven nearly frantic by the yapping inconsistency of the foreman, Carl, a self-styled efficiency expert who understood practically nothing of the factory's detail but who had been recently imported to cut costs, rush orders through. When the lights went out and the machinery stopped, Carl blamed his chief enemy, Hagen, a good workman of 20 years' service in the factory who never hid his contempt of Carl. While Carl sent his yes-men blundering through the darkness on futile errands, Hagen...