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Word: toters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...batch of foreign bonds. In 1914. when the Germans were bearing down on Paris, he was called to print bank notes for France, but the order was canceled when Paris did not fall. He went to American Bank Note 46 years ago at $7 a week as a plate toter. It is his passion for exercise, he thinks, that makes him look 15 years younger than his 64 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Money & People | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

...famed potato toter: Secretary of Labor William Nuckles Doak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Simples | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

Never before in Manhattan had the U. S. pestered the "little fellow," the "hip flask toter." In Chicago and other cities this strategy has been used sporadically against night clubs. Declared New York's Prohibition Administrator Maurice Campbell after the Hollywood raid: "This is the first instance-but if the practice is not discontinued it will not be the last." Prohibition Commissioner Doran in Washington denied that any new national policy was involved. Purpose: to see if New Yorkers could be convicted for public drinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pint Raid | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

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