Word: touch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...August Wagner of Columbus, Neb., containing a mass of misstatements reflecting on the flour millers of the state which we wish to emphatically controvert. You have been grossly imposed upon. . . . We have kept an accurate weekly record of wheat and wheat products prices for years and keep in close touch with the mill prices to retailers over the state all of the time. When wheat on Aug. 3, 1929, was $1.44 per bushel, Chicago option, Omaha cash was $1.34 to $1.40 per bushel. The mill quotations on standard flour, Omaha in car lots, for that date was $6.50 per barrel...
...Press the reciprocal privilege. Her husband, appealing to the "common folks at the fork of the creek," mocked and jibed at Candidate Sterling's handsome Bay Shore house, declared it had no less than 27 bathrooms.* accused his wife's opponent of "having lost the common touch." Boldly he admitted he would run the state government over Mrs. Ferguson's shoulder. He shouted: "Get two governors for the price of one. . . . I'll be right there with Mamma to pick up the chips and bring in the water when you elect her." He promised...
Interesting, of course, but you didn't tell me where I could get in touch with Garnet Carter...
...that many a U. S. and British woman wants to go there, Lieut.-Commander J. R. Stenhouse announced in London last week that he will make things as easy for them as possible. Sailing from Southampton next Dec. 10 in "a cozy steamer of 12,500 tons" he will touch at New York and for $2,500 will take anyone who wants to go on an Antarctic cruise...
...verbatim the taurine code revised, a document longer (ten quarter newspaper pages) than the text of the London Naval Treaty. Rejoicing was great, for just as cockfighting was resumed after the fall of strict Dictator Primo, so it was seen that Spain's bull- killing will regain a touch of ferocious color which "humane" Primo forbade. Permitted once more are the banderillas de fuego-the fire darts which, after their steel points have been stuck firmly into the bull, explode with infuriating effect...