Word: walnuts
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...Walnut Elephants. Most of the growth was promoted without the gaudy hoopla that outsiders associate with Los Angeles. Southern California has its ace barkers, but the businessmen of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce favor blue serge suits more than checked vests...
...Walnut Panels. After his death in 1924, the Chamber dropped much of the old flamboyance. In the oak-mahogany-walnut-paneled offices in the Chamber's own nine-story building, there is a full-time staff of 150 go-getters headed by able, 44-year-old General Manager Harold Wright. The staff is actively supported by some 13,400 members who serve on the Chamber's scores of committees, a board of 49 directors which meets once a week, a president who customarily spends about half his time on Chamber work...
...invitation of the Department of Commerce, some 400 exporters gathered in Washington last week to learn about the Government's export controls imposed on Jan. 2. For 1¼ hours, they sat in Commerce's walnut-paneled auditorium listening to an explanation of the new rules by Francis E. Mclntyre,.deputy director of the Office of International Trade. Just before the party ended, the exporters got a press release. It tersely announced that the program which they had been discussing was being reinforced by a drastic new program, effective March 1. From that date on, said the release...
...Natural History last week, Linde chemists displayed synthetic star stones that were red, blue, violet, soft grey and pink. No two were exactly alike, but through the high, rounded surface of each twinkled a six-pointed star. The biggest stone, a star ruby, was as big as a walnut shell and weighed more than 100 carats (.643 troy oz.). Beside the synthetics, many of the natural stones from the museum's collection looked pallid...
...McCormick's cavernous, walnut-paneled 24th floor office, guarded by two secretaries and one of the Trib's 45 pistol-packing cops, the daily schedule ticks off with military precision. First come Leon Stolz with his squad of editorial writers, and Carey Orr with his crew of highly skilled cartoonists, to hear the orders of the day. The discussion often goes into luncheon at the 19th floor Overset Club, the executives' dining room...