Word: sold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime he had his ups & downs. In 1902, Republican Seth Low became mayor and Jimmy Hines lost the city's horseshoeing business. For $3,500 he sold a share in the smithy to one Klenke. Hines drew $75 a week for himself and about $4,000 a year out of profits, but after 1907, when he was elected alderman, politics was his real profession. In 1912 he sold Klenke the rest of the smithy for $7,000, and with a man named Madden went into the trucking business, fattening on city contracts for snow, garbage, rubbish removal. After...
...about 90% of Rumanian oil (annual production: about 53,300,000 barrels), farm products, wheat, timber, bauxite, chromium, copper and sulfate will henceforth be "sold" to Germany, thus going a long way toward ending the Reich's scarcity of food and raw materials...
...holders of tickets on Workman in the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes drawing, it was a marvelous race indeed. All but the four who had sold half interests to soft-soaping, sixtyish Sidney Freeman (representing Douglas Stuart, Ltd., last week in Manhattan) stood to collect $141,000 each...
...college man, chubby, jovial, Yankee Josiah Hayden had sold spring water in Lexington, Mass., been a Y. M. C. A. leader in France during the War and has occupied himself with "private charity work" ever since. Last year Mr. Hayden opened a two-room office in Boston, installed on his desk a carved black bull a foot high (he says it symbolizes his bullishness on U. S. youth) and began to distribute his brother's largesse. To his office, whose doors are always open, came many thousands of requests for money, some crackpot, some worthy...
...faced Millionaire Church sold bicycles in Toledo, automobiles in Los Angeles, made enough to buy the finest breeding stable in California and to be one of Culbert Olson's chief backers. Last week Odell screamed that during the election campaign Church asked him for $5,000 on the promise that an attack on Pacific States would be left out of a recorded Olson speech. Custodian Church denied asking for the $5,000, but admitted receiving $2,500, admitted too that mention of Pacific States had been removed from the phonograph record. Governor Olson snapped that he, for one, knew...