Word: snagging
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...snag in recruiting student nurses is competition from war industry. Whereas a student nurse must work three years for nothing (except keep), industries pay girls while training them. About half the U.S. nursing schools now charge tuition-before the depression only 15% of the schools did so, and 88% of them actually gave their students $8 to $10 a month spending money. Average tuition has risen from $45 to $75 in the last decade. And with the armed forces boasting of the cash value in civilian life of the free training they often give their men, many girls think...
...Razzle-Dazzle. Andrew Higgins stole the march by using a double dose of Kaiser's own technique-rough & tumble action plus fortissimo publicity. Right after Higgins lost his ship contract, he raised enough rumpus to start several Congressional investigations, to snag thousands of headlines, and convince many people that he was a victim of the Maritime Commission. When things slowed down Higgins bought full-page ads in leading newspapers, boasting "World's largest builder of boats...
Tired of empty urban pews, U.S. Baptists last month began an elaborate program of suburban church building. But the evangelization of suburbia has hit a snag: priorities. Undaunted, the Baptists are meeting in suburban halls, schools, stores while waiting for building materials. In one Philadelphia suburb, the congregation worships in a barber shop...
...Magnin chain of high falutin women's specialty shops. Within a few years, stores like Neiman Marcus in Dallas, Mrs. Blum's in Chicago (who said Nettie could get "more money for four seams than anyone else"), Nan Duskin's in Philadelphia, were proud to snag exclusive sales rights to Rosenstein models that set them back 60-$300 apiece, wholesale.* During the '20s, when the best was supposed to come from Paris, U.S. dress makers sold these fancy models under their own labels -plus an awed whisper from salesgirl to cognoscenti that they were really "Rosenstein...
...Defense Plant Corp. had picked the site for a project, construction was ready to go. But the directors of the corporation owning the land would not meet for three weeks to approve the sale. Half an hour after getting the story, Francis and some lawyers had pulled up the snag, bypassed the directors. Construction started the next...