Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Selina Martin, 21, was a tall, angular blonde. She worked for Julies Freres, Couturiers-the brothers Raphael and Paul. Raphael, a dress designer himself, appreciated her original work, therefore advanced her salary after her mother's death left her living alone. Then one day he noticed something in her work...
Further saddening his audience, Mr. Crabtree went on: "Chain stores and mail order houses pick up profits in villages and country places to be taxed at the headquarters office in a far away place. ... In Iowa there is an average of 200 boys and girls per county leaving the country...
Last week, New York motorists setting out to enjoy Labor Day were able to fill up with gasoline at 16¢ the gallon (plus 2¢ tax)?¢ lower than the previous price. Official explanations were not elaborate.
Capt. Harold A. Cunningham navigated the S. S. Leviathan westward from Cherbourg with a record-breaking number of passengers aboard (2,730). With millionaires bunking with the crew, dowagers traveling third class, Captain Cunningham wired a berth-seeking friend: "Would put you up in my own cabin but every locker...
When Eskimos take up tennis it will be news not much more unexpected than last fortnight's reports from Mexico City. There, where people take siestas before the bullfight, was played football. Soccer has long flourished in the sunshine zone, but it is regulation U. S. football, in felt...