Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They tilled the soil, in succeeding years dammed the river for power, built woolen and flour mills, dyeworks, woodworking shops. Each adult had a coupon book worth $40 to purchase a year's necessities at a village store. Community kitchens provided meals for everyone. Rule-breakers were punished by being excluded from religious services...
...fishing, and now he has compressed 25 years of expert sea angling experience within the covers of a 432-page book* in which he not only rhapsodizes about big ones caught and lost but gives an extremely tangible summary of his secrets for taking every American salt water species worth wetting a line...
Discovering an employe earning $3.20 per month and identified only as "Minnie" on the payroll of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey's Bayonne plant, an auditor investigated last week, found that Minnie is a cat which gets $3.20 worth of salmon and milk every month for keeping Standard's testing laboratory free of rats and mice...
...town followers, was plainly worried - all because able Reporter Johnston Davis ("Jack") Kerkhoff of the New York Journal had dug up a lurid story about the brown "God's" chief West Coast "angel," broken it to the G-men and was playing it for all it was worth in his Hearstpaper. The U. S. Attorney in Los Angeles last week issued a warrant for the arrest of John Wuest Hunt, 33, charging him with violating the Mann Act with a Denver 17-year-old named Delight Jewett. Hunt, a fat, thrice-married young man with plenty of money, became...
Meantime, the Dearborn individualist last week decided to withdraw further into his vast fortress of independence. The Akron Beacon Journal revealed that Ford Motor Co. had ordered $1,000,000 worth of tire-making machinery for a new Ford tire plant at the River Rouge works outside Detroit. Moreover, said the Beacon Journal, that order was only "one of many...