Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Each year, however, there are many persons who suspect that they smell a rat. This thought, which is largely inspired by the higher range of prices at the store, is raging at high heat this year as a price war seems ready to start in the Square. It is well to examine the setup before one adopts such an idea. Control of policy rats in the hands of the stockholders who include several graduates. These men receive no remuneration for their services. In addition there is an active board of directors, made up from members of the Faculty and undergraduate...
...most expert firer, knows most of arson's middlemen. Some ten years ago she began to make money by fabricating and selling to arsonists a gadget consisting of a short candle tightly bound with kitchen matches. Price: $5 to $10. Later when she found that women were less suspect in arson cases than men, she began to use her own gadget. Her price was anything up to $250 per fire...
...Mass. (now Deerfield), was in poor shape for defense against the French and their Indian allies. Its palisade was old and rotten and a heavy snowfall had made it even less of a protection. There were only 150 men in the town. The cold and sleepy sentries did not suspect the attack until it was too late. But the Indian warriors, under the nominal command of French officers, did not massacre everybody. They captured all the men, women and children they could, made off with them on the cold journey to Canada, to hold them for ransom. A woman...
...Although not definitely proved, the evidence seems to indicate that nicotine is at least one of the toxic factors [in cigaret smoking] and that carbon monoxide and the products of the cigaret papers may be eliminated as offending mediums." Other suspect factors: "Ammonia, pyridine and pyridine derivative, cyanides and sulpho-cyanides, arsenic...
...flop as a business proposition. Publication of Government liquor tax receipts for fiscal 1934 merely added to the evidence. Liquor retailing has been bitterly competitive and for small stores practically profitless. Big distributors are sagging under the weight of carrying the corner dealer. Even the distillers, always suspect, have found Repeal no gold mine. Few weeks ago National Distillers, stockmarket comet of 1933, hit a new low for the year on the same day that Coca-Cola hit a new high of $136 per share...