Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which promises to be a great convenience to Polish pigeons. Mrs. Wilson, Poland's President Ignacy Moscicki, U. S. Ambassador John North Willys, Auguste Cardinal Hlond, Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Mannes Baruch and Daughter Belle piled wreaths about Statue Wilson's ankles. Out by the gate was a smaller bust of Democrat Wilson's faithful lieutenant Herbert Clark Hoover. President Hoover, now unalterably Republican, sent a message: "It has been my own good fortune to visit Poland. It has been my good fortune to meet the illustrious citizen to whose inspiration this gathering is due. It has been...
...call a secret meeting between President Samuel Pursglove of Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corp. (a $23,000,000 concern operating seven mines at present and second in the Area only to Pittsburgh Coal Co.) and United Mine Workers officials on June 18. United Mine Workers had already agreed with two smaller companies on a wage scale of 58? a ton for loading machine-mined coal, 78? a ton for "picked" coal. $4.80 for day work. Upshot of Pittsburgh Terminal's conference with the union was that last week the company offered work to union miners for the first time...
...behavior of the Hoover crowds was not all the President's friends wished for. They were respectful but cool. They lifted their hats but not their voices. The silence of the Indianapolis street crowds, which were far smaller than advertised, prompted a local Republican to explain to correspondents that they were tired from long standing and waiting for the President. Remarked an irreverent newshawk: "Well, they're not standing on their hands, are they...
...Belmont Stakes, not so thoroughly publicized as the Kentucky Derby, attracts a smaller and proportionately more socialite crowd, is worth more ($58,770) to the winner. The race was run on a hot sunny afternoon, with Twenty Grand the favorite, Jamestown a second choice at even money. The horses broke out of the starting stalls together, then straightened out with Jamestown ahead and Twenty Grand last. They stayed in practically the same positions with Twenty Grand running easily and well behind the leaders as he did in the Derby, till the last turn. Then Twenty Grand and Sun Meadow began...
Automobile production for the first half year is now estimated at 1,700,000 units against 2,309,000 in the same period of last year. But the second half is expected to show a smaller rate of decline than the second half of last year, and a total of 2.900,000 units for 1931 is forecast. Last week General Motors' dealers took more cars than during May 1930. But GM's retail sales were 122,000 cars during May against 131,000 in May last year...