Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening last week some 25 people were crowded into the provincial liquor store of Sarnia, Ont., just across the St. Clair River from Port Huron, Mich. Into the shop stepped two holdup men, one small and wizened, the other masked with a black silk handkerchief. Both waved revolvers, made the customers line up face to the wall while the larger bandit climbed the wire partition to the cashier's drawer, scooped up the cash, climbed back again, ordering all the customers to file into the liquor room. What happened next was best described by one Jack Cosley...
...Guadeloupe). A 75% reduction was made for canned pilchards (sardines), U. S. exports of which in late years have been too negligible for anyone to list. French quotas were enlarged on 44 U. S. products including fresh apples and pears, false teeth, leaf tobacco, canned salmon, logs & lumber, silk hosiery, automobiles, typewriters, radios, electric refrigerators, steam engines, circular saws, farm machinery. France promised to maintain the existing rates on such U. S. products as dried peaches, motion pictures, frozen salmon...
Eastern Hopei lies between the Great Wall of Peiping and the vitally important port of Tientsin. One of the first moves of Puppet Yin was to cut customs duties to 25% of those of the Nationalist Government. Japanese junks landed huge cargoes of silk, rayon, woolen goods, cosmetics and, most of all, sugar at Hopei fishing villages. Trucks and canal boats, most of them flying Japanese flags, smuggled the goods into Peiping and Tientsin, have recently extended the trade to Kiangsu, Anhwei, Honan, Shensi and even Kansu province...
...George Lansbury in Manhattan last week the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom gave a blue-&-white silk scarf, with an all-over design featuring the letters PAX. Before donning his scarf, and heading westward for peace meetings in 18 cities during the next month, Pacifist Lansbury spoke at a large gathering in Carnegie Hall. Quavered he: 'If all of us old men and old women were put in the front rank, I'm not sure there'd be a war. ... I advocate a slogan, 'Old Uns First...
...Philadelphia the spotlight centered on four rangy, good-natured University of Texas runners who advertised their State's Centennial celebration by staging their first practice session in ten-gallon hats, high-heeled boots, leather jackets. First day of the meet they changed to shorts and silk jerseys, trotted out to show spectators how they had smashed the world's record for the 880-yd. relay a fortnight before in Austin...