Word: pipes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wood pulp and newsprint, crude asbestos, wood shingles (with limitations), lobsters, telegraph poles, undressed mink, beaver, muskrat and wolf skins, nickel ore, cobalt and quahaugs. Other items on which the U. S. duty was reduced: electric cooking stoves, lacrosse sticks, swordfish (if not frozen), eels, chubs, saugers and tullibees, pipe organs for churches, ice skates, alewives in bulk, rutabagas and polymerized or unpolymerized vinyl acetate...
...foremost Conservatives. Everyone had expected them to win (TIME, Nov. 18) but warming to their Capitalist cockles was the post-election firming up last week of sterling, sound City shares and Treasury bonds. Though dull as a whole, the campaign had provided just enough brickbats and pieces of lead pipe hurled by Britain's unique proletariat safely over Conservative candidates' heads. There were no bloody riots, best of all no facing of grim domestic issues like the Dole. With genial intuition and not too brazenly, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin caused the vote to be taken last week almost...
...garage and an automobile sales agency, first Democrat elected Supervisor of Hyde Park in a generation. The Supervisor-elect won his campaign by distributing 30 boxes of 5? cigars, and by stanchly championing Mrs. Roosevelt who his Republican opponent, Walter Gilbert, had declared was "whistling up a drain pipe" in her efforts to provide self-sustaining industries to take care of Hyde Park's unemployed. The torchlight procession carried a piece of drain pipe labeled...
...drew when he returned from Geneva, presumably with earth-shaking news about Europe's crisis. In all constituencies candidates bitterly complained that party leaders had "greatly overdone the wireless." John Bull, feeling that John Bullish Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was going to win the election anyhow, puffed his pipe at home while the flesh & blood candidate around the corner sulked. John got all the electioneering he cared to hear from broadcasts. In the famed "depressed areas" of Britain, where grinding poverty stalks and almost nobody has a radio, local candidates got all too much attention from the enraged...
Youngstown Sheet & Tube had a fine business with oil and gas companies in the boom days of pipe-line construction, but its sheet division is now more prosperous. Youngstown's 1931-34 deficits came to $31,000,000. After losing money in the first half of 1935, Youngstown made $575,000 in the third quarter, squeezed out a nine-month profit of $104,000 against a $1,669,000 loss...