Word: sandwich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That's not enough to buy a ham sandwich for every shareholder," retorted Sir Josiah...
...share of brewery stock to every Orange Lodge and every active Protestant minister in Toronto, except "one Spracklin, who shot a hotel keeper" in an enforcement raid (when Ontario was Dry); one share of stock in a jockey club to every active minister in Walkerville, Windsor and Sandwich, Ont. But the will's most thrilling feature...
Detroit Bridge Default. Little more than a year old, valued at $13,892,000 is the Detroit International Bridge between Detroit and Sandwich, Ont. Last week not the bridge but the company of the same name which owns it began to sway dangerously. Business depression has caused traffic to fall off. Competing ferries have cut their rates viciously rather than go out of business. Traffic has been diverted into the new Detroit-Canada Tunnel. During 1930 toll revenue was $892,000, operating expenses?$328,000. But by the time all charges were computed the bridge company...
...Author. Russel Grouse, colyumist of Manhattan's Evening Post ("Left at the Post"), also writes for the New Yorker, once acted in a play (Gentlemen of the Press) by munching a ham sandwich, darting into a telephone booth. Caustic playgoers called the sandwich appropriate...
...joke about Chicago's crime-tide has long been the prerogative of colyumists, cartoonists, comedians. Last week a high Federal official joined the game. Munching a lettuce sandwich, sipping milk, Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock sat in his office and told Washington newshawks about his recent visit to Chicago. Perhaps in all seriousness, but with ludicrous effect, he said: "I saw nothing of the speakeasies that are reported to flourish [there]. Why, I even walked down some of the so-called 'bad streets' several nights. ... I saw no machine-guns on street corners, or anything like...