Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presented with enough "evidence" to agree to give the four men up. The nature of the new evidence was not divulged, but so feeble was previous evidence that it was thought Sir Robert had handed over the possibly guilty men to certain death simply to be in a better bargaining position for a much thornier problem: North China currency...
Last week plump Business Manager Bickelhaupt called the Tribune staff together, gave a pep talk, promised a bigger and better newspaper to battle the Star-Journal for supremacy in the Northwest. Possibility: that the all-day Tribune would split into two papers, hold its morning circulation, go after the silk-stocking evening Journal readers...
From San Francisco to Reno in one hour, 54 minutes (41 minutes better than the light plane record for that distance) flew Pilot Sally Rand...
...corn-growing Iowa, 79% of this year's acreage was planted with yield-increasing seed. Lately Henry Wallace on his daily walk to his office in Washington has taken to stopping in Washington Monument grounds to practice with a boomerang for exercise. But he never threw a better boomerang than his own hybrid seed, whose production economies and improved yield are no consolation to hopelessly overcapacitated corn farmers...
...sugar-coating common dividend. White-haired, springy, no geranium in the profane steel business, young (aged 38) Ed Stettinius is the kind of man who looks his Corporation's troubles in the eye. He announced: 1) that Big Steel would pay its regular quarterly preferred dividend (again better than 75% unearned); 2) that second-quarter earnings ($1,309,761) were about $650,000 more than the first quarter's-but only because the Corporation decided to cut depreciation charges by $700,000. Three days later Mr. Stettinius had no happier prospects when Montana's Senator Burt Wheeler...