Word: went
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Santa Claus had come to town out of season. The good word got around. Great Western Sugar Co. (assets: $82,402,000) heard it, blinked at the 67? tax rate, pulled up stakes in Plainfield. Into Judge Large's office, a block from the courthouse, went Great Western's new safe and papers-and the place got crowded...
Interested Parties to War II who had profit rises: 24 iron and steel companies (excluding U. S. Steel) whose net went from $17,835,000 in the hole to $25,811,000 profit; five building equipment makers, up from a $930,000 loss to $3,522,000 profit; 25 machinery builders up from $4,479,000 to $10,329,000; eight railway equipment suppliers-from minus $2,566,000 to plus $4,075,000; General Motors, up from...
...Russian friends warn against ever giving the serfs a decent meal lest it upset their stomachs. In the evenings the Major solaced himself by playing the flute (he had been "Pipes" at West Point), but never on Mrs. Whistler's Sabbath. Despite Mrs. Whistler's disapproval, Deborah went to balls. Young Jimmie picked up a love of courtly manners...
...Keith married and went to Borneo in 1934, returned to the U. S. on her first leave this year. She writes cautiously little, suggestively well, of the social stringencies of the European colony, "as gently inflexible . . . as the design on a set of teacups," devotes more specific attention to the weather, to servants and household pets, to guests, to a journey through the jungle...
Coach Jack Carr's soccer team went down to defeat at the hands of an undefeated Springfield eleven Saturday afternoon by a 2 to 1 score as the Gymnasts refused to be stopped in their march towards the New England crown...