Word: sacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accord with the cost of wheat and the changing value of bran and shorts. We had a man in our office this morning from the mill at Columbus, Neb. He said they were selling best patent flour in local lots delivered to retailers at $1.20 per 48-lb. sack. Standard grade 10? less. Best patent flour is retailing in Columbus today for $1.35 to $1.50 per 48-lb. sack. Spring wheat patents, $1.75 per 48-lb. sack. These facts are applicable to the flour market in any part of the country taking into account differences in freight rates. The mills...
Sirs: Across the street I see a large sign-48-lb. sack good flour only 991-. W. D. Rhoades cash store. August Wagner of Columbus, Neb. should move to Texas where everything is right. J. E. BRADLEY...
...dragged a piece of pork across their trail to prevent being followed by hounds, waited for a train to come by. A switch engine backed across the spikes, its crew removed them, preventing disastrous derailment of a Newark-New York express. In Louisville, Ky., small Charlie Bradshaw found a sack of paperhanger's paste powder, took it home, dumped it into his mother's flour can. Biscuits made from the flour caused Charlie, his parents, his brother to be violently ill. His 15-months-old sister was expected...
...Persian art at all familiar to average occidentals is the famed throne upon which sit Persia's Shahs. And this came from India, not Persia. Built in the reign of Shah Jahan (1627-58) in India's "golden age of architecture," it appeared in Persia after the sack of Delhi by Nadir Shah in 1738. Designer is thought to have been Ustad Isa, reputed creator of the Taj Mahal. Before it was stripped of most of its appurtenances, silver steps led up to the throne proper, a peacock tail canopy overspread it, diamonds, rubies, precious gems, thick...
...right in a way but with a cutaway we should wear a wing collar and a bow tie. I hate to say it but I fear the vest is not quite smart. It should be cut quite low. If you wish to be informal, wear a sack suit but if you start out to be formal, you must go all the way. This costume simply isn't smart...