Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remedies for, these deficits (TIME, July 22). An audit of the scrambled costs of maintaining the different classes of postal service is now in progress. Last week Postmaster General Brown prepared to call into an October conference the big users of first-class mail, particularly direct-mail advertisers. Quickly spread the firm belief that the Department would recommend as a deficit-extinguisher an increase in first-class postage from 2? to 2½ or 3?. Argument for the increase: Citizens pay the deficit anyway, either in higher postage rates or U. S. taxes...
...still light like the sun was about to go down. We all spread out in the cornstalks. I could not see Joe all the time...
...stall. She hovered comfortably a few feet from the ground. He got her high and flew her to about 90 m.p.h. At will he held her almost stationary in the air. His landing made spectators laugh. It was like a domestic goose hopping from a fence with wings spread, feet and tail reaching for the ground. He deflected the autogiro's tail planes downward. They brushed against the ground just before the wheels. Then to show off the machine's stability, he rose slightly. Then he descended, stopping in one demonstration, within a few inches, in none, over...
...monopoly; that incompetence or dishonesty in a few high places can ruin a whole branch banking system. If you are a large city banker wishing to expand, you will very likely see that a branch bank can be of more assistance in time of trouble because its risks are spread over wide area; that in branch banking credit is very liquid so that it can find in any one locality as much as may be required, bringing the funds if necessary from afar; that management is much more likely to be competent and honest in a few strong hands than...
...young lady advertised for gifts of canceled stamps in the London Times in 1841. By 1842 Punch had another fad to ridicule. The fad spread to the U. S., and last week hundreds of stamp collectors convened at Minneapolis for the 44th annual meeting of the American Philatelic Society, largest of such U. S. bodies. They swapped stamps and stamp stories, spoke familiarly of "Luzons" (Philippine issue), "Bull's-eyes" (elliptically shaped Brazilian issue), compared albums. Seldom in the history of Minneapolis have there been so many pairs of tweezers in town. Stamp-men tweeze their treasures to avoid smudging...