Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Motor's Fisher Body Corp. is the largest consumer of hardwood in the U. S. It requires between 300,000,000 and 400,000,000 ft. annually. With furniture and building in the dumps, a small slice of an order by Fisher will keep an average mill operating for months. Yet the Hardwood Code allows no discount on even the whopping Fisher orders...
...Chicago Board of Trade as late as last year used to run less than one-half the total on the Stock Exchange. By last June the Board of Trade was handling nearly three times the dollar volume of the Big Board. Foreign brokers are planning to garner a good slice of whatever trading is driven from Manhattan by Federal regulation. Toronto Stock Exchange tickers in Manhattan Board rooms are multiplying. A few Canadian brokers have even established Manhattan branches. Talk of any large-scale diversion to foreign exchanges is not taken very seriously, but as a defensive measure the Street...
...fair share for water diverted from the Colorado River. He was bitterly disappointed when the bill passed at the next session. Like many another frontier politician, he dreams of U. S. territorial expansion: three years ago he lustily campaigned for U. S. acquisition of Lower California and a slice of Sonora to straighten out Arizona's southern boundary...
...starring Norma Shearer (Mrs. Irving Thalberg), will next see that actress performing as a well-behaved Victorian poetess in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, with Fredric March and Charles Laughton. Clark Gable, Wallace Beery and Robert Montgomery will do what they can with Mutiny on the Bounty, a salty slice of sea history...
Taking a sizable slice out of the top price of $4.40, the Yale Athletic Association has set at $3.85 the admission to next year's Harvard-Yale football encounter, which will be played in the Yale Bowl on November...