Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This gastronomical spree, sponsored by Wayne University and the Detroit Board of Commerce, celebrated the publication of Wayne University's heavily documented survey of "air cargo potential in fresh fruits and vegetables," initiated under a grant by Edward S. Evans...
...cash-heavy, car-hungry U.S. railroads have been on a buying spree; in three days last week they ordered 1,800 cars. But the big surprise was that the bulk of the orders went not to the moss-backed mastodons which have dominated the field for a generation, but to a young outsider, the bustling Mount Vernon Car Manufacturing Co. of Mt. Vernon...
...Funsters in a dining hall selling spree, swept a waitress off her feet to the tune of four $100 bonds. Another resident bought a $500 bond, putting Dunster over this week's quota and this plus other sales equals 45 per cent of her total quota. William L. Sprout '47, is chairman of their drive...
...stockmarket, already on a liquor spree (TIME, Nov. 8), promptly went through the roof. In New York, American Distilling opened the week at 100, 25 points above last week's close and up 85 points from the year's low. In Baltimore Tom Moore hit a high of $200 v. its $27 1943 low. But before the ordinary stockholder can drink his dividends, he must pay State and Federal taxes, have the bulk liquor shipped around to bottlers, labelers, wholesalers and retailers (who are entitled to the regular 33⅓% markup...
...Frank Gan nett and carp-eyed Publisher Colonel Robert R. McCormick share two fierce emo tions : hatred of Franklin Roosevelt, a conviction that New Deal "bungling" in agriculture will cause starvation in the U.S. Last week, in Bertie McCormick's Chicago bailiwick, the two joined in an emotional spree, airing their fears in a joyous catharsis of rich gloom...