Word: purveyor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Riverside Farm, the boiled eggery, is hot a myth--created by Dining Hall Manager Westcott to add distinction to his morning menus. Plain "Boiled Eggs" would have little appeal, according to Westcott. The term "Riverside" was inspired by Brookside Farm, one time egg purveyor to the University...
...news service may send dispatches out of Argentina without posting a bond of cash or federal bonds of from 5,000 pesos ($1.656) to 50,000 ($16,560) with the Bank of the Nation. This bond is to remain on deposit until three years after the bonded news purveyor has sent his last dispatch. All dispatches, whether cabled or mailed, must be signed by the bonded sender and filed in scrapbooks at the disposal of the Argentine Post Office. No dispatch will be passed or approved by an Argentine censor in advance, but the Post Office can levy fines against...
...rain with Barrett roofing; a housewife may buy Polar moth balls. But the average indirect consumer never sees the aniline in his blue serge suit, the tanning alkalis in his oxfords, the caustic soda in his soap, the soda ash in his window panes. For Allied is primarily a purveyor of heavy chemicals to heavy industry...
...Richberg reveals he is a born conservative, dyed in the purple and to the manor bern. Meanwhile the sudden change fro m "End Poverty," to "End Prosperity," in Sinclair's slogan for California has resulted in a rebuff from Roosevelt which materially damages that picturesque purveyor of political panaceas' chances of election. An entertaining spectacle this, in all its ironic humor, but pertinent to this review only in hat it shows that the administration, sicklied o'er with the pale hue of approaching elections, is making a pathetic attempt to "Turn To the Right." Market students must always bear...
...scene. Mercury to the masses, purveyor of cheap speed on land and in the air, his spectacular rise has been accomplished in the 15 years since he was a Moon auto salesman in Chicago with a $35 weekly drawing-account. So many Moons did he sell that his 5% commissions brought in about $30,000 a year, netted him $100,000 with which he bought out wobbly Auburn Automobile Co. Youngest motorcar company president in the U. S. at 30, he built up a quick fortune which he expanded by, acquiring Duesenberg and a few companies manufacturing accessories. Until...