Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...masses for a mere deuce ($2), bringing the price per canto to about eight cents. Why, some of the titles alone are worth eight cents: "P-s-s-t, Partner, Your Peristalsis Is Showing," "Creepy Time Gal." "Adorable Taxable You." "Reat Mc. Post-Impressionist Daddy," "To Sleep, Perchance to Steam;" and many others, too humorous to mention...
...Will White found a different man: "In the five hours he had grown tired. As his speech went on his voice seemed to lose its fire. . . . In the final sentences his voice dropped and I could not hear his last three words. But I could see then that the steam in the old boiler chugging along for ten years had taken its toll of rust...
...force and violence or advocated such doctrine. It is fortunate that the higher court could sense the weakness of a law so susceptible to wide interpretation when it deplored prosecution for opinion and made a plea for the wisdom of giving people "an opportunity to let off a little steam . . . against the possible wrong-doings of the government." But, though the interpretation was condemned, the law itself was upheld, leaying the way open, under it, or one of the thirty-two similar state laws, for a repetition of the case of De Jonge vs. Oregon in which the state sentenced...
Getting off to a paralyzing start did not deter the period of expansion which get under full steam around 1910. Three years later, in 1913, Professor Cunningham told how the University finally fully realized that the little cellar institution was not only a mushroom, but a good...
This year, with sustained high volume, earnings should be much better. Nonetheless New York Steam (98% owned by Consolidated Edison Co. of New York) is still only mildly optimistic about the boom. For one thing, they have signed up just about all the big new customers in the area they serve. Besides, once the war is over, the U.S. will again be flooded with oil. And, despite Harry Bauer's faith in the Lord, an act of man like a cut in oil prices can slash New York Steam's earnings just as fast...