Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rite, watched in Westminster Abbey while his Almoner distributed doeskin purses of scarlet & white thongs to 67 hand-picked old men of the Parish of Westminster, 67 old women, the King being 67 years old. Since a set of specially minted Maundy Pence is a coin collectors' item worth $1, the old folks get a little more than face value for their handout. They also get $12.50 per man, $8.75 per woman, in lieu of a gift of clothing...
...addition to being the hardest steeplechase in the world, the Grand National is also occasion for one of the three great annual lotteries of the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes Committee. Twelve million dollars' worth of tickets were sold on last week's race, $7,000,000 worth of prizes given away. Of the $7,000,000, U. S. ticket holders got almost $3,000,000. In the past most U. S. holders of winning tickets have turned out to be impoverished eccentrics whose extravagances made good newspaper reading. The list of last week's major winners suggested that...
...Rust built a coke plant every 60 days, a benzol-toluol plant every six weeks. Since these plants needed structural steel, Mr. Rust drew in the Pittsburgh steel team of Charles Donnell Marshall and Howard Hale McClintic. Today the parent Koppers Co. controls at least $400,000,000 worth of properties, has only 16 stockholders. The Mellons own a clear 50% of Koppers' stock, Mr. Marshall 16%, Mr. McClintic 9%, the Rust family about...
...matter involving as much as 15 years of credit. The Eskimos and, in Candle, the white residents bring in furs, gold, seal oil and reindeer meat to trade for canned food, clothes, hardware, needles, anchors, liquor. As near as he can figure, Trader Magids last year did $90,000 worth of business. Another $15,000 was taken in by Kotzebue Sound Lighterage Co., which he also owns...
...levee the U. S. was ranked 30th in precedence down the list of States, the reason being the absence of U. S. Ambassdor Robert Worth Bingham, who was also absent at the funeral of King George and is still vacationing in the U. S. There was but one U. S. presentee outside the diplomatic circle: Mr. Caesar Augustin Grasselli.* Seated on a glittering throne, the new Sovereign received in all approximately 1,000 men-including the envoys of the Great Powers now bickering over the Rhineland Crisis (see p. 24)-in the record average time of 3½ seconds each...