Word: holing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shown is a most comely lady looking out of a port hole. Now the lady is on the inside looking out. But her admiring sheik is on the outside looking in. All of which is, of course, not uncommon...
Bishop Hill, Ill. (pop. 208), site of one of earliest Swedish religious communes in the Midwest, was all astir last week. Carpenters were busily plugging a hole carelessly burned in the Old Colony Church roof last April while townsfolk prepared to feed several thousand visitors next week at a picnic to celebrate the 90th Anniversary of the purchase from the U. S. Government of the Bishop Hill colony's land. Simultaneously, the attention of U. S. art critics was being called to Bishop Hill because it had just been discovered that the Old Colony Church housed the nation...
...some $3,500,000. Thus when Field's chairman, James O. McKinsey, last week put his signature to a contract conveying the Davis Store to Morris, Nathan, Louis & Joseph Goldblatt (for a carefully concealed price), Mr. McKinsey was, in effect, relieving his firm of a bucket with a hole in the bottom of it. Well did the Goldblatts know it. Nevertheless, this entry into State Street was a crown on their careers...
...Balatoc mine was a $500,000 hole in the ground, which borrowed $250,000 more, paid it back from earnings in less than two years and by 1934 was paying $2,000,000 a year in dividends. Several other mines have had smaller but equally brilliant records, accompanied by tales of Tom-Dick-&-Harry made rich overnight...
...Gaffney will both be taken from their guard posts to try out here, with Gaffney being the most logical choice to be retained here. Nee will probably be shifted back to his original guard post while Russ Allen and Charley Kessler are the logical choices for the other hole...