Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The shopgirls, stenographers, penny-wise housewives who make up a large portion of Woolworth buyers will find a 10¢ lovestory magazine, containing all the romance that 25¢ love-loring publications contain.
Golfing v. Flying. When the seventh plane within a month landed and tore up their golf course, members of the Old Westbury Golf Club next to Roosevelt Field, L. I., became actively vexed. They refused to let the plane take off, until they learned that it belonged to Curtiss Flying...
Frank P. Blair, Chicago diver, last week adjusted his helmet, slowly submerged himself in Lake Michigan. With careful, heavy movements he prowled around the bottom, searched through jumbled cans, tires, bottles. Diver Blair is a good searcher. He it was who recovered from the muddy Jackson Park Lagoon the typewriter...
In Baltimore raged a flagpole sitting craze for children. One "Azey" Foreman, 14, claimed a junior championship with a record of 10 days, 10 hr., 10 min., 10 sec. Soon rivals appeared. In a few days, 21 poles bore young perchers, applauded, tended, pointed out by ambitious parents. Unambitious parents...
Speculators chewed ragged cigars last week, conferred past midnight, lost their sleep. Thursday's stock market had closed strong when the Bank of England did not raise its rediscount rate. Then, late in the afternoon, came announcement that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York had raised its rate from...