Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some even admitted discouraging legitimate tourists because they stayed all night, brought less revenue than local lovers. In one camp, a series of "couples" rented one cabin 16 times in one night. In ten weeks, one camp was patronized by 254 "couples," 109 of whom came from Dallas. Only seven gave their right names, but S. M. U. snoopers took their automobile license numbers, discovered their identities. These were not disclosed, but a map showing the location of their homes was circulated, caused tremendous tumult, for most of the "couple trade" came from the better parts of town. Concluded...
...Francisco's great Bank of America National Trust & Savings Association (with 447 California branches) and Portland's First National Bank (with 28 Oregon branches). Two years ago Transamerica edged eastward, bought up Reno, Nevada's First National Bank, made it the centre of a cluster of seven Nevada branches...
...Kemp. In a complaint to set aside the reorganization, they accused Commissioner Carpenter of inexperience, charged that he had sprung the reorganization on them without due warning. Next move of Commissioner Carpenter was to file a $511,650 suit for misuse of Pacific Mutual funds against Complainant Cochran and seven of his onetime officers. Meanwhile, Pacific Mutual's inextricably complicated affairs were further tangled by the appearance of more public authorities. Investigators from the Los Angeles District Attorney's office prowled through company files and the Los Angeles Grand Jury's criminal complaints committee began attending...
...estimate. Lamar Fleming Jr., his young partner, who is rated the firm's No. 2 man, saw the figures soon after he debarked from the Enropa in Manhattan. Presumably the partners of Anderson, Clayton & Co. were pleased because a big crop means more cotton to handle. In the seven seasons through 1935 the firm sold more than $1,000,000,000 worth of cotton, yet its total profit was only $13,000,000. Testifying before a Senate committee Will Clayton declared: "We made those profits, by the way, at least half of them, as the result of the Government...
...number of other distinctions Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette can add that of being one of the most rapidly-translated novelists in literature. In the past seven years 15 of her French novels have been published in the U. S., and at one period in 1931-32 translations of them appeared almost every other month. That the reserve of untranslated Colette novels was rapidly being exhausted, many an enthusiast realized with regret last week when the latest item in this Frenchwoman's list appeared...