Word: washing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Carnation Ormsby Butter King, 9. world champion milk cow, who last year produced 38,000 Ib. of milk, 1,750 Ib. of butter (TIME, Feb. 24); and Sir Inka May; mixed twins, their third set; at Carnation Farm, near Seattle, Wash...
...restricted field of domestic farm staples, however, the Commodity Act hews closer to the general line of securities regulation. Trading sins include manipulation, wash sales, dealing in options, bucketshop operations and routine fraud. Customers have to put up actual margins, something of an innovation for big speculators whose credit is good. One customer's funds may not be used to support another customer's accounts. Floor brokers and commission merchants with a futures business have to register with the Commission. Among the Commission's wide discretionary powers are the right to delay or advance contract settlements...
...called in newshawks, gave them details of the capture. As excited reporters were ready to rush away toward telephones, someone asked when the Bureau expected to catch William Mahan, scar-faced ex-convict who last June got $200,000 by kidnapping 9-year-old George Weyerhaeuser at Tacoma, Wash. (TIME, June 3, et seg.). "Oh, by the way," smiled Director Hoover, "I almost forgot to tell you. We picked up Mahan in San Francisco at 12:30 this noon." Forty-eight hours after being captured, Mahan pleaded guilty in Tacoma, was bundled off to Puget Sound's McNeil Island...
School children in Tacoma, Wash, gazed with solemn curiosity last week at their schoolmates Veronica Pratt, 17, and Patrick Pratt, 9, whose British-born mother, Mrs. Sunya Pratt, had just become the first white Buddhist priestess...
...Camas, Wash...