Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Messrs. Dun & Bradstreet reported last week that U. S. retail sales for July were 16% below 1937, they added an explanation: "excessive heat replacing heavy rainfall as a deterrent to shoppers." Ice cream consumption in seven days was 500,000 gal. above normal. No adequate figures were available on the consumption of gasoline, soft drinks, railroad tickets and many another commodity, but it was evident that extraordinary weather had made substantial losses and profits for businessmen. And last week for the second in succession, most of the U. S. east of the Rockies lay sweltering under a heat & humidity...
Last year in Washington, 2,500 low-salaried Government employes organized the Group Health Association, Inc., retained seven physicians to provide complete medical care at moderate rates. The A. M. A. immediately denounced this cooperative venture as "unethical," proceeded to use the stratagems of industrial warfare to put the G. H. A. out of business. They 1) threatened to expel G. H. A. doctors from the District Medical Society (local branch of the A. M. A.) ; 2) threatened to expel all physicians who consulted with G. H. A. staff-members; 3) barred G. H. A. doctors from Washington hospitals. Cooperative...
...seven days beginning Saturday, August 6. All times are EDST. All programs subject to change without notice...
Ohio has given the U. S. seven Presidents. Only one State-Virginia, with eight-has done better. Ohio has 37 colleges. Only two States have more-Pennsylvania with 59. New York with...
...because he has been seduced and because he has lost his money. Unfortunately, the comic side of this Walpurgis Night wandering diminishes when Author Boyle endows Wilt with an intuition, inspired by drink and his own fantasies, that enables him to solve in one night a fraud which takes seven years for the law courts to see through. Modest readers, unable to figure out Kay Boyle's queer people, may be left with an uneasy sense of their own confusion; more confident readers will call the author addled...