Word: plums
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...prices for their newsprint from C. P. & P. Nevertheless, many a disgruntled member of the Institute felt certain that some concession, involved perhaps in an exchange of stocks, had the effect of C. P. & P. "shading" the Institute's price of $55.20 per ton. The sight of that plum (approx. $26,000,000 prospective annual business) being so plucked made other Institute members feel they had been left suddenly in the cold. They at once began to assert themselves. Col. Price, whose company, a low-price producer, might be in the thick of any price war, declared that Price...
Even that plum tasted slightly tart to Aviation Corp. officials, whose mouths had been watering in anticipation of "100% of the maximum rate" for which they had bid. While the Watres bill authorizes payment up to $1.25 per mi. flown by the contractor, the Postmaster General established a scale of 75¢ per mi. for mail space of 47 cu. ft. (about 400 Ib. of mail) and 40¢ for space of 25 cu. ft. (about 225 Ib. of mail). Aviation Corp expected Postmaster General Brown to contract for the larger load. Instead, he took only the 40¢ space to start with...
...trained seal on a barber's pole is balancing a whirling ball on the tip of his nose. Up the balustrade of the exterior staircase stalks a procession of pink elephants, rhinoceroses. The interior is even stranger, with carved witches and fairies, gnomes and children, a giant metal plum pudding, glass-eyed electric spiders that slither up and down on copper webs. To curdle young blood one room has a reproduction of the cauldron in which Jack's giant made pot-av-feu of his victims before Jack slew him. The walls are studded with bones...
...then there is the spread which antedates the famous ban on "plum cake" in 1639. The present has inherited all of this zest and feeling of an institution that harks back to the beginnings of Harvard. Yet all of this is mere froth, brilliant colors and empty noise. But behind it there is a meaning, and a very substantial tradition. It is the pageant of the unforgettable past...
Died. James Oliver Curwood, 19, namesake son of the late novelist (The Courage of Captain Plum, Philip Steele of the Royal Mounted, God's Country and the Woman, Nomads of the North); of a broken neck, a fractured skull; when his airplane hit a tree at Owosso, Mich...