Word: showering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work. Even so, spinning a roulette wheel while keeping argus eyes on ladies and gentlemen who are prone to cheat is nerve-racking business. To keep croupiers from having nervous breakdowns they are changed every few hours, retire between times to a musty lounge below stairs equipped with shower baths. But sooner or later a Monte Carlo croupier was sure to go crazy in public...
More than 13,000 of the 15,000 banks in the U. S. last week held a shower for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. by sending checks to set the corporation up in business and get their deposits up to $2,500 guaranteed for six months. Their total contribution was estimated at $90,000.000 to $100,000,000 and they became liable to be assessed an equal amount later. The U. S. contributed $150,000,000 to the pot; the Federal Reserve Banks $131,000,000. Because banks, for the temporary guarantee, are assessed only on the portion of their...
...Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl came an "emergency relief" bill for $1,406,48 for a pastel tinted shower and air conditioner which Acting Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. had installed in his office last summer when he was Farm Credit Administrator. Comptroller McCarl refused to pay for such "relief...
Ever since the Securities Act was passed last spring Wall Street has been gloomily predicting that a new issue of stock or bonds of a major corporation would be followed by a shower of resignations from officers and directors who would refuse to assume the liabilities imposed by that law. Though some $300,000,000 of new brewing, distilling, investment trust, mining and a few industrial issues have been registered with the Federal Trade Commission, no old-line company, up to last fortnight, had stepped into the stagnant market for long-term capital. First to do so was Mathieson Alkali...
...admiring flock dwindled, and while the B. U. fraternity candidates waited, the reporter was summoned to the dressing room. There, while selecting his necktie, and between dashes to the shower-room, with the air of a much interviewed man he replied to the reporter's questions. "Mary Brian" said he, "is the actress with whom I have gotten the most enjoyment from acting." Buddy avowed a preference for the piano above all other instruments which he plays. When asked what he thought of the Harvard indifference, he replied that his audiences in Boston had been very kind...