Word: trails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long tin shed. On its floor piles and piles of brown leaves, rows and rows of piles. Down the long rows slowly moves an auctioneer chanting numbers, numbers and more numbers, singsong fashion. Behind him trail the buyers. Every eight, ten. fifteen seconds comes the only refrain that breaks the monotony of the chant: "Sold to this company" or "Sold to that." Thus every autumn since before the Civil War the U. S. tobacco crop has gone to market. Last week, however, singing auctioneers were silenced in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina...
...bald-browed beagle baying on the trail of income tax evaders was Henry Morgenthau Jr. last week. The Acting Secretary of the Treasury announced that henceforth all important cases brought before the Board of Tax Appeals would be inspected by him personally. From now on, he continued, the Treasury would go to law to recover tax deficiencies instead of accepting compromises out of court...
Shark-hunters have no luck with guns or dynamite. A dead shark sinks at once. In his Hawaiian days Sharkman Young used to rip open a dead horse, trail it behind his boat, harpoon the sharks as they swarmed to tear at the flesh. When he went into shark-hunting on a commercial scale, Sharkman Young strung 600-ft. nets along the ocean floor. A shark never turns back. Stopped by a net, it rolls over & over until it is hopelessly entangled. After chemists learned some 15 years ago how to remove the prickly, flint-like denticle from a shark...
...dinner given for them. After many after dinner speeches, suddenly one of the editors of the Harvard publication embarked on the subject of the stolen fence. He said that they were all very sorry to hear of the deed and had set their ace of detectives on the trail of the evildoers. Mr. Bob Lampoon himself set out after the perpetrators of the crime and at last was rewarded with success. With a quick flourish of the wrist, he moved back the table cover and showed underneath, the missing property. The Elis cheered, and cheered, and late that night sent...
...recognize that this link must be made. None of our land is condemned. There is no doubt but what the bridge will become a necessity when the relocated Concord turnpike is completed. This road will offer a quick through-way to Concord and all points west on the Mohawk trail and the resulting congestion in Harvard Square must be relieved by making it easy for traffic to use the other side of the river...