Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia, "General" Farley refused all comment except to snap when asked if the new party had changed Democratic campaign plans: "Why should...
...income taxes what they are, the net yield on Standard's bonds to a big corporate investor is only about 2.65%. What makes Standard's bonds so desirable is that there are relatively few bonds of big super-solvent industrial corporations on the market. Big institutional investors snap them up to keep their portfolios diversified...
...eager to go ahead with the project. Money was forthcoming from other wealthy people, most of whom demanded only that they have the fun of shooting the animals. Three hundred thousand dollars was provided for six expeditions. Painters went along to sketch the settings in color, and photographers to snap the animals in all their natural poses. Tons of rock, earth, sand, grass, tree trunks and branches were shipped to the museum, where they were treated with a preservative and the African settings reproduced piece by piece. Artificial berries, leaves and flowers were made of paper, wax, cloth, celluloid...
...Roosevelt, was still on a machine-shop basis. If there were only some way to put it on a mass-production basis and thereby reduce manufacturing costs so that houses could be turned out at not more than $2,500 each, he was sure that U. S. purchasers would snap up 500,000 to 1,000,000 of them...
...palace dictatorship died last fortnight with King Fuad I (TIME, May 11). Last week Egyptian politicians worked fast to take over the Government. As 16-year-old King Farouk I arrived from England to move into his new job, Egypt's overwhelmingly popular Wafd Party swept snap elections, as speechless as they were brief, for the Chamber of Deputies and Senate. Reason for haste was that King Farouk is two years short of his dynastic majority. The Constitution of 1923 provided that the envelope containing King Fuad's nominations for the Council of Regents had to be opened...