Word: boons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trubee Davison, defeated for Lieutenant Governor of New York: "Well, I guess that's over the dam." In Chicago, Socialist Norman Thomas with no electoral votes but a popular vote expected to total perhaps 2,000,000: "Governor Roosevelt may find the mass protest vote more of a boon in getting him elected than in helping to face the years that lie ahead...
...potent Aviation Corp. (American Airways holding company) which holds a 12% interest in P. A. A. It was organized in 1929 by the late Carl Ben Eielson, father of aviation in Alaska. While it enjoyed a romantic, lusty existence in a land where the airplane is an immeasurable boon, Alaskan Airways never made money. Prime reasons were Avco's lack of facility for remote control of operations; and Alaskan Airways' unprofitable mail contracts. These are not true airmail contracts but "star routes"* won from the dogsled contractors by underbidding. The contractor is required only to carry the mail...
...sudden rush of pigs to market would upset the hog-cart. In Iowa where 13 million hogs are born and fattened every year, the rise from June 1 to last week's average price made a difference of $40,000,000 figuring each hog at 240 Ib. Another boon to hog farmers has been the low price of corn. It is generally assumed by farmers that they can make money if they can sell their hogs at a hundredweight price ten times higher than the cost of a bushel of corn. Corn on the Iowa farm last week was selling...
...nominate Warren Gamaliel Harding after a midnight meeting in the Blackstone Hotel, there were no bustling headquarters of rival aspirants for candidacy. Onetime Senator Joseph I. France of Maryland kept a lone vigil with a pair of stenographers in a suite at the Congress, ridiculously hopeful of a boon which the party leaders downstairs on the mezzanine floor had not the slightest intention of bestowing upon him. Marshall Field & Co. displayed a collection of small elephants. Loop district street lights were decorated with the party symbol on bunting. But throughout the length & breadth of the city there...
...view of these unusual conditions the opening up of positions in the dining service next Fall would be a boon to the needy student. Undergraduates should be given positions in the kitchen and as bus-boys in the food tunnels. A thorough Student Council investigation has shown that 28 bus-boy positions are available, as well as six jobs in the three House kitchens. It is possible, that more positions may be opened at the Union, and probable that between one and two dozen additional waiters will be taken on at the Business School. In addition four or five student...