Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last week in the office of County Treasurer Horace G. Lindheimer in Chicago, began to dial. Their assignment was to buzz every one of 4,000 delinquent personal property taxpayers, who owed Cook County $1,000 or more. Results at day's end: 171 responses, 129 promises, seven complaints that the taxes were too high, one part payment which amounted to less than the day's telephone bill ($25). Meantime, in another part of Treasurer Lindheimer's office, another crew of assistants was busy -without any lack of success-in mailing out the first checks...
...Reason: all materials had to be carried up by climbers. In duraluminum they weighed seven and a half tons. In wood they would have weighed 110 tons...
...seven days beginning Saturday, August 20. All times are EDST. All programs subject to change without notice...
...convinced that the plan presents exceptional economic and artistic possibilities. Certainly the post office business would increase with stamps bearing replicas of Shirley Temple, Norma Shearer, Irene Dunne. Deanna Durbin. Clark Gable, Charlie Chaplin and even Charlie McCarthy and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs...
...passion and a minimum wage of 60? an hour has obviated labor troubles. Chief reason for the company's success is its product, specially created for softness and absorptive qualities. Two other factors help explain why Scott's big Fourdrinier machines now work a 24-hour day seven days a week (one of them has done so since 1924). As pointed out in the latest Brookings Institution tome, Industrial Price Policies and Economic Progress (TIME, July 18), Scott has led the industry in price-cutting, now sells ScotTissue at 10? a roll compared to 45? during...