Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other exhibits are war clubs, blowguns, wooden drums, flutes and grinding stones. Beside each object from the Americas is its Oriental counterpart. The people on opposite sides of the great ocean even shared, and share still, a peculiar vice: chewing narcotic plant materials mixed with lime to release the alkaloids. In southeastern Asia the substance chewed is betel nut; in Peru (where no betel grows) it is coca leaves, the source of cocaine. The little gourds to hold the lime and the decorated spatulas for dipping it out are almost the same in both widely separated regions...
...productivity of the industry has increased, steelworkers have teen paid a fair share of increased profits...
Retired National League Umpire Bill Klem, 75, smitten by his share of oaths and pop bottles in almost 50 years of calling decisions, was on the receiving end of a new kind of demonstration. At a Polo Grounds ceremony arranged by baseball writers, damp-eyed Bill Klem caught a broadside of cheers and gifts from fans, players and managers...
...there, Odium this year has been reshuffling Atlas' holdings to tighten up control and to trim expenses. Last week, as Atlas announced plans to combine two of its biggest properties, Barnsdall Oil and Ogden Corp., into the Barnsdall Oil Co., Odium reported that the asset value of Atlas shares was again on the increase. During the first half of this year, asset value dropped from $27.18 a share to $26.27, mostly because Atlas was selling off department-store and liquor shares. But, having bought into mining properties, Atlas' asset value was up again last week to $28.10, well...
...Midwest Exchange will not choose officers until winter, but nobody doubted that the president would be Jim Day, the man who had first suggested the merger. What had prompted his move was the fact that business on the Chicago Exchange had become flabby; a 30,000-share day looked big, although a dozen years ago 100,000-share days were not unusual. Jim Day reasoned that if the big brokerage houses could get business by having direct connections to their branch offices in scores of cities, stock exchanges in Midwest cities could do the same...