Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taken by and large, Western Union girls are a pretty nice lot. They generally talk through their noses, pronounce "nine" as though it rhymed with "lion," and are unduly inquisitive about whose name the telephone is registered under, but in a pinch they'll always come through...
...student found this out the other day when composing a message which he intended to pack a considerable wallop. He remembered gloomily that the Federal Communications Commission had laws about forceful language, and he decided to put his problem to the Western Union girl point-blank...
...Ukrainian peasant is a tough nut to crack. At a time when they could least be spared from the western front, 500,000 soldiers of Germany and Austria-Hungary were needed to keep the Ukraine in order. Moreover, the Ukrainian peasant was not enthusiastic about feeding the Germans at the front. For the 1918 harvest they tried to trick the Germans by planting just enough for their own needs. Only 42,000 truck loads of grain were exported from the Ukraine during the entire period of German-Austrian occupation...
...ordinarily buys less from Argentina than she sells her, does not enjoy Argentina's favor. Long a sore point with Argentina is the prohibition against the import of fresh Argentine meat to the U. S., a ban largely due to the claims of lobbyists from cattle & sheep-raising western States that Argentine meat comes from livestock suffering from hoof-and-mouth disease...
...seven: Columbia Conserve Co.: Nunn-Bush Shoe Co.; Welsh Co. (St. Louis baby carriage manufacturer): Berkshire Knitting Mills; Northwest Metal Products Co.: Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.; Western States Envelope...