Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House had plenty of help in making up its mind. For seven months the most active lobby since the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariff bill had buzzed about Capitol corridors. Chief Lobbyist Ellsworth Bunker, vice president & treasurer of the National Sugar Refining Co. of New Jersey, gave dinner parties for Congressmen in his swank 23rd Street home. Economist-Lobbyist John E. Dalton, ex-chief of sugar for AAA, wrote carefully prepared treatises and reference books demonstrating the need for protecting U. S. refiners and refinery workers (of whom there are only 16,000). Ex-Senator-Lobbyist Hubert D. Stephens of Mississippi...
...last week 25 had been rescued out of an estimated 600 survivors throughout France & Belgium. Many of the 25 were blind, many carried scars of the battlefield, all were in miserable shape. Long-starved, the horses had to be prevented from disastrous overeating, were kept down to a daily seven pounds of hay, a weekly gallon of beer. Most gratifying to the League officers was the rapid way in which the horses recalled their English. After only a few weeks with British grooms, the horses would be obeying orders they had not heard since...
...spectacle, however, impressed the delegates so much as the fact that almost unanimously music merchants announced their best business in seven years. President Fred A. Holtz of the National Association of Band Instrument Manufacturers calculated that more than 2,000,000 children now play in school bands. Accordion makers reported a record turnover of 120,000 instruments in the last twelvemonth. But pianomen, reporting that the sales of 49,595 pianos through June were 33% higher than for the corresponding period last year, were most optimistic. They expected to sell 80,000 more by the end of the year...
...terms with John L. Lewis late last winter, and if it had any complaints on the subsequent behavior of the steel union, it kept them strictly to itself. While "Little Steel" was fighting Labor on a dozen bloody fronts, Big Steel piled up the biggest first-half profit in seven years-$64,000,000, quadruple the figure for the same period of 1936. With part of these profits the U. S. Steel directors paid up the last arrears on their 7% preferred stock, making dividends on the common a possibility for the first time in five years...
...child (the only survivor of seven) "he tended towards consumption and dropsy, was subject to violent fluctuations of temperature, suffered a contraction of the nerves, and had a fistula in one eye." Able at 12 to recite Pope's Homer and the Arabian Nights, he was soon so deep in Roman history that he resented mealtime, could not go to sleep for thinking about discrepant history dates. Sent to Oxford as a gentleman scholar at 15. he had "no duties and many privileges." Discovering that nobody minded if he cut classes, he spent most of the school year traveling...