Word: sold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began making them. Instead of sandbags, the lawyers of Gray's Inn protected their windows with heavy legal tomes. A rabbi banned the sounding of Shophar ram's horn on the Jewish New Year for fear the populace would take it for an air-raid signal. Stores sold luminous paint for switches and doorknobs, "gas costumes" guaranteed to resist mustard gas 45 minutes, furniture suitable for cellars, empty flashlights (batteries long since sold...
Less lenient was the treatment given Waterman Steamship Corp.'s Warrior, carrying pebble phosphate and rosin out of Mobile, Ala. Bought & paid for by Germany, the phosphate (5,900 tons) and rosin (600 barrels) were confiscated by Britain, ordered sold at public auction. From the Nieuw Amsterdam were taken two German spies (one of whom attempted suicide), 34 German stewards and sailors. The Dutch Government was allowed to take title to 1,500 tons of copper aboard...
Died. Charles Michael Schwab, 77, board chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corp.; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan. From counterjumper in a Pennsylvania village grocery store at 16, he jumped tJ the presidency of Carnegie Steel Co. at 35, three years later sold Carnegie to a Morgan syndicate and became the $2,000,000-a-year chairman of U. S. Steel Corp. Because "I wanted to be a tsar" Charlie Schwab got out of U. S. Steel and founded Bethlehem, which during the first two years of World War I sold $225,000,000 worth of munitions to Great Britain and Russia...
...What's the Use of Dreaming?, Central, Give Me Back My Dime. Married seven times, he made-and spent-$1,500,000. Somewhere in France Is the Lily, a World War occasional, brought him $50,000. I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now, his most-famed favorite, sold 3,000,000 copies, still brings in royalties...
...both ushers and ticket takers, the rule as to the personal use of football tickets will be waived. However, the responsibility for proper use still remains with the applicant. This means that tickets cannot be sold at a premium, or to outsiders...