Word: storing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lose a 200-mile circle of its power customers to the Authority. President Campbell thought he had found a good demonstration of an old powerman's axiom: That power generation and flood control are conflicting purposes, because an empty dam cannot run generators and a full dam cannot store flood waters...
When a storm broke a window of Philbert Hartshorn's hardware store in Owosso, Mich., he wrote the company from which he had bought insurance asking them to replace it. The company did nothing. He wired: REMEMBER THAT YOU ALSO CARRY OUR BURGLARY INSURANCE. Repairs were promptly made...
...Books, July 4 issue, in the story of the present bestsellers, TIME states that the two best-selling books of the week at The Emporium's bookstore in San Francisco were Heidi Grows Up and Ferdinand. I assume that you chose The Emporium as a store whose sales are representative of San Francisco as a whole, i.e., Heidi Grows Up and Ferdinand were San Francisco's best-sellers last fortnight...
Died. Dennis Francis Kelly, 69, self-made Chicago philanthropist, good Catholic lay leader, retired president of The Fair (department store); of pneumonia; in Bergen, Norway...
Four years ago dapper, dynamic Don Francisco, West Coast advertising man, organized the campaign that kept Upton Sinclair from becoming Governor of California. Two years later he planned the fight that licked California's chain-store tax. Besides these two feats, able Adman Francisco, head of Lord & Thomas' San Francisco office for 17 years, has built up such lucrative accounts as California Fruit Growers Exchange (Sunkist), The All-Year Club of Southern California and Californians, Inc. (tourists). He has also advertised Southern Pacific Co., the Dollar Steamship Lines, Union Oil Co. of California...