Word: tooing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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>U. S. exports for July fell below those for June and the first seven months of 1939 were almost 10% under 1938's not too exciting figures.
In 1919 the late great Storeman of Boston, Edward Albert Filene (William Filene's Sons Co.) set up the Twentieth Century Fund, for "the improvement of economic, industrial, civic and educational conditions." Three years ago that well-heeled foundation slipped the leashes of two able fact-finders, Paul W...
By that time, too, Promoter Hunt, a former president of Iowa State Agricultural College, had formed Oriental Consolidated Mining Co. with the aid of British capital and U. S. engineers, was mining gold. His British bankers, however, believing their own engineers' reports that the enterprise was worthless, unloaded their...
Lady Wenlock was so absent-minded that once when she was hunting a pen, she found herself looking for it under P in the French dictionary. Deaf, too, she carried a silver ear trumpet that looked like an entree dish. When she turned it toward an Italian duke at luncheon...
Eddie Marsh worshipped his pious, bookish, tone-deaf mother (she "couldn't tell God Save the Weasel from Pop Goes the Queen"). She weaned Author Marsh on Hamlet's soliloquy, and he started her reading such moderns as Zola. She taught him to sew, too, and later, Sir Warrington Smyth...