Word: twines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even an earthy thing glows; his words twine themselves into garlands...
...even when the Secretary made his announcement the Treasury Department was considering forbidding imports of steel from Germany, tennis shoes, electric light bulbs and calcium carbide from Japan, stearic acid and thumb tacks from Holland, rock salt from Canada, woven wire fencing, sulphide paper and binder twine from England-all on the grounds of dumping. Following his wheat export proposal Mr. Wallace announced final details of the plan to raise hog and corn prices (TIME, Aug. 21): the Government will spend $55,000,000 buying up 5,000,000 hogs (4,000,000 young animals, 1,000,000 sows about...
...child is not given a doll it will make one. But because better dolls can be manufactured than can be fashioned at home from old rags, sticks and twine, more than $25,000,000 worth of dolls are sold each year. The Depression has made small inroads into doll sales. Centre of the U. S. doll industry is Manhattan's lower West Side where 22.000,000 dolls are made annually. An infant industry (before the War practically all were imported), U. S. dolls are protected by a tariff ranging up to 70%. The business is highly specialized...
...Henry Cotton; from W. T. Twine: the 1,500-guineas golf tournament, at Southport, England...
...another Americanized Scot, who finished second to Jones twice last year, won the qualifying rounds. In the championship play he slipped back and Jurado, Armour, Joe Kirkwood, stocky little Gene Sarazen, Johnny Farrell who carried a rabbit's foot in his pocket, and two British professionals, Cotton and Twine, were near the lead after the second round. Armour finished his fourth round early in the next afternoon with a brilliant 71 and had nothing to do but sit around the clubhouse while the other scores were posted...