Word: shoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matters of artistic propriety had been waged between the No-Jury exhibition directors and the store's executives, the 200 artists picked up their canvases, walked out of The Fair ("A Great Store in a Great City"), opened their show instead in an old mansion on Lake Shore Drive...
...poverty-stricken farmers in all 48 States, this boom meant undreamed of profits. A barrel of potatoes costs about $2 to grow, another 75?^ to dig, pack, ship. Prices were so low on the Eastern Shore last year that desperate farmers hijacked and destroyed truckloads of other growers' potatoes going to market. In Maine, No. 1 U. S. potato State, where a 165-lb. barrel last year sold at the warehouse for as little as 10?, some 10,000 carloads were dumped into swamps. This was the situation that led Congress to pass the famed Warren Potato Control...
...play was a party on his suburban estate, where 20 acres were converted into a "Versailles Garden" with electric stars in the shrubs. Mr. Kent waited until summer, then gave not one but two balls simultaneously in Bar Harbor. One was on a yacht, the other on shore. Flower-decked launches carried the guests back & forth. Mr. Kent's daughters, Elizabeth and Virginia, are both married...
...Lady Mendl claims to have won the title of the World's Best Dressed Woman at a cost of only $15,000 a year. She dyes her hair green, blue or pink and learned how to swim free-style at past 60. Three years ago she swam to shore when a friend's speedboat caught fire off the Riviera. Said she then: "Ten minutes' work with the fire extinguishers was the only manual labor most of the men had done in their lives." She made an exception in favor of her husband who is attache...
...business since the proxy fight with Boxmaker Brunt, President Paepcke says, "It's gone along nicely." Blond, athletic, Habsburg-handsome, he lives with his wife and three daughters on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive, weekends at his 600-acre farm on Somonauk Creek outside of Chicago. Mrs. Elizabeth Nitze Paepcke goes in for stage designing for Junior League plays...