Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experiment at a meeting of the American Psychological Association in Manhattan. Subject: the effects of free lunch on various forms of artistic appreciation (see p. 54). Psychologist Razran's conclusions indicated that with enough free lunch "you can practically make an individual like anything." He admitted that it took one subject five lunches before she liked the piano music of Modernist Aaron Copland. "But she did come to like it, and after she did, gave all sorts of reasons why it was beautiful...
...post office in Bug Tussle and nobody in Bug Tussle has a telephone. Almost everybody is almost everybody else's cousin. The citizens of Bug Tussle present a united front to the world. Two months ago two postal inspectors from Birmingham arrived to ask a few questions. It took rather longer than they thought, for nobody was at all cooperative. But last week they finally arrested seven people for using the mails to defraud...
When Richard Whitney, onetime president of the New York Stock Exchange, was suspended from the Exchange last month for insolvency and theft of customers' securities, his older brother, Morgan Partner George Whitney, was in Florida on vacation. Wall Street took this as prima-facie evidence that George Whitney knew nothing of the pending debacle. Last week this view was considerably modified...
Testifying fortnight ago, Richard Whitney revealed that his brother had loaned him $1,082,000 in November, having already loaned him $2,000,000 several months before. Testifying last week, Richard Whitney was asked to recall their November conversation. His neck slowly flushing, the fallen financier took a deep breath and recounted: "The loan was made because I told him I had been using customers' securities improperly. He was aghast at the fact and terribly disturbed. He said he would see if he could arrange to lend me the money I needed and told me to find out what...
...then trailers. Last summer, when the reorganization scheme was cooked up, the company was at a standstill, with no cars on the line, 25 employes in the factory, lots of red ink in the ledger. When the market crash last fall halted refinancing plans, the company took refuge in a 77 B reorganization to await reviving good times. When the market crashed again last week, Pierce's 444 creditors were agreed that there was no use waiting any longer...