Word: boons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said the Manhattan's captain of the Williams invention: "Greatest boon to navigation since radio...
...wages of office and factory workers east of the Urals will be raised from 10% to 30% by their all-potent employer, the State. Fishermen on Soviet Far East coasts will get 20% more for their catch. All this effective Jan. i, 1934. Moreover-and this was the greatest boon of all-the obligation of Soviet peasants to sell most of their grain to the State at miniscule prices was suspended east of the Urals by Dictator Stalin, for ten years in the case of collective farms, for five years in the case of private farmers. In effect...
...telegram quickly provided "Poor Devil's" identity. Again he was authentically Harry Stockton Boon, auditor for the Department of Agriculture in whose service he has spent 16 years. He left Washington seven weeks ago. Last week he was on his way to San Diego to visit his brother. Captain Ben Boon of the U. S. Army...
Orphaned at ten, Mrs. Roosevelt was left some $30,000. She is a partner in Manhattan's Todhunter school for girls. Profits go back into the business, which is operated by her boon companion, Marion Dickerman. With her other inseparable friend. Nancy Cook, a tousle headed. unfeminine. effective woman who often dresses mannishly and smokes cigarets in a holder at the side of her mouth. Mrs. Roosevelt operates Val-Kill shops, an enterprise which manufactures antique reproductions at Hyde Park. This is a non-profit concern. In the past five years Mrs. Roosevelt has picked up some...
...those silly doctors admire Mae West but they mustn't tell our daughters that her corseted waist and padded hips are any boon to motherhood...