Word: bracket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From their $1,552,000 fee, Messrs. Haight, Alcock & Goldstein will have to repay their loan from the City of Chicago. High-bracket income taxes will take another $400,000 to $500,000. The division of the remainder was secret, but La Salle Street expected Lawyer Goldstein to receive at least a half for his four-year campaign...
...Sakonnet Point, where rocky capes bracket a two-mile beach, off Brenton's Reef Lightship and the Narragansett shore where curious eddies twist in the shallow surf, there began last week the solemn business of picking a yacht to defend the America's Cup next September. After a week of trials, to be followed by another series in July, a third in August, the New York Yacht Club's selection committee had seen this year's three contenders under sail six times...
...virtue of this victory the Warren Club joins the Pollock, Wilson, and Story Clubs in the semi-final bracket...
...positions. So far the results of the tryouts have been as follows: Howes defeated Archibald Cox '34, and lost in turn to J. M. Hall; Hall, who has been playing on the Lincoln's Inn team, defeated Bowditch, of the Graduates' team, before playing Howes; in the lower bracket, Hartford and Clark have successfully defeated Amos Eno, W. B. Hodges, and H. Black, and are to meet and decide the fourth place on the team; the loser of the match will play Howes for fifth place...
...Nobody knows the exact age of bald, mysterious Mr. Filbert, master of so many columns of figures, but it is a fact of record that he got his first job with the Chicago & Northwestern Railway 52 years ago. The presumption is that he is in the 65-70 year bracket, will soon retire, that young Mr. Stettinius will within a reasonably short time become in fact Steel's "Mr. Statistics." Even before then he will probably become one of Steel's 15 directors along with J. P. Morgan, Thomas W. Lamont, Myron C. Taylor, James A. Farrell, George...