Word: scant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...helped to precipitate Roosevelt reforms. Last week Kreuger & Toll's U.S. ,estate paid its final dividend to claim-holders, bringing its total payments to $2,743,582. With payments by the Swedish estate, the burnt-up Match King's burnt-up creditors have so far collected a scant $22.000,000 out of original claims...
...Kirkland in the final event, the relay, to score an upset over the hitherto undefeated Deacons. The two teams were two points apart before the event, but Lowell's relay team composed of Harry Hammond Wheeler Smith, Douglas Sears, and Sam McClellan beat the Kirkland mermen by a scant two yards in a nip and tuck race...
...technique of consulting the buyer on his tastes before making a product. In "Buck" Weaver's words, it is "finding out what people like, doing more of it, finding out what people don't like, doing less of it." A logical operating philosophy, it is nonetheless given scant consideration by U. S. industry. Most businesses rely solely on dealers, advertising agents and only occasional surveys to keep apprised of public preference...
Sullivan, who was nosed out by Republican Chester R. Swenson for assemblyman from the second district in Middlesex by a scant 200 votes had demanded a recount. "It probably won't change things," he said, "but I'll find out where all the dirt was thrown, where I got knifed...
...high schools in the U. S., a scant 8,000 study the automobile and its relation to everyday life. A leader is Chicago, where every public high school now teaches the actual manipulation of the automobile. Lagging is New York City, where only a few technical high schools...