Word: smallest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swift Lathers, whose Mears, Mich., Newz is the smallest (four pages, 5¼ by 7¼ inches) and oddest newspaper in the United States. A poet and mystic who spends his summers in a tent and many of his nights pacing the dunes of Lake Michi gan, Editor Lathers makes a precarious living for his wife and three children (Thelma, Billo and Forest Glenn Lathers) by publishing such fascinating bits as the following: "Miss Cornelia Vander Zander is crocheting an oval rag rug to put her bare feet on these cold mornings when she steps out of bed. . . . Hooray, hooray...
...YORK--The stock market closed irregular today but on a note of firmness which featured a dull season in which only 440,000 shares were turned over, the smallest since Sept...
...From the smallest speak in "Dirty Mary...
Annually for the past five years Charles Babb has sold between $500,000 and $1,000,000 worth of airplanes and airplane equipment, largely to clients in Alaska, Mexico, Central and South America. His smallest sale was his first, a $700 reconditioned and guaranteed Eaglerock three-seater. His largest: $400,000 worth of assorted ships for export to France in 1936, intended, he guesses, for Loyalist Spain. As sidelines he rents ships to Hollywood cinema studios, runs a skywriting business, operates the Ryan and Stinson agencies for Central and South America...
American Bantam, smallest of the streamlined lot (120 in. over all), comes in a standard coupé at $399, a station wagon no bigger than a doghouse at $565, and nine intermediate models...