Word: shores
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Crane's Beach on the North Shore is only minutes from Harvard sq. The many fine beach areas in the Cape Cod region are within an hour's driving time from Cambridge...
...market-which cost some $200 million-and made the purchases without the customary competitive bidding. The purpose of the purchases, testified Felix E. Wormser, former Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Mineral Resources, was not to hoard critical and scarce materials-the goal of the stockpiling program-but to shore up production and prices in the troubled minerals industry. Wormser, who came to the Government from his job as vice president of St. Joseph Lead Co. (40% of U.S. lead production) and later returned to it, testified that he wanted to bring better days to the lead and zinc industry...
Died. Sailing Wolfe Baruch. 88, retired stockbroker who. with Brother Bernard M. Baruch, hired a locomotive on the Fourth of July 1898. steamed from the Jersey shore into holiday-forsaken Manhattan to cable huge buy orders to the London Stock Exchange on news of the great U.S. naval victory off Cuba in the Spanish-American War, a victory that, as they expected, touched off a great buying spree on Wall Street next day. skyrocketing prices in the U.S. stocks that the Baruchs had bought at low prices in London while others were too busy celebrating; after a long illness...
...light supper and a few last "quickies" from the bar brought the afternoon to a close, and '37 boarded their buses for the North Shore Music Theatre. There they were entertained by an original show billed as the class "extravaganza," which had been in rehearsal during the afternoon...
...special tax cut for morale reasons would interfere with the plans for basic tax revision later on. Still another possibility was to speed up federal spending for public works and defense orders. But it was decided that such a step-up would not have swift enough effect to shore up the stock market. In short, the sense of the meeting was that for the moment the best thing to do was nothing...