Word: boons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...panic produced last week by Stalin's new order, nervous Soviet citizens were assured that this time the Government will be more lenient in probing for enemies. Also, whereas Red passports have previously been for three years, the new ones will be issued for five years, a major Soviet boon...
...characterized the whole Federal program as "a more ambitious kind of leaf-raking." In Manhattan, however, now that he had been made Model No. 1 for the 48 other Works Progress Administrators who will be designated to supervise state Federal spending, the loyal General changed his tune, promised "no boon- doggling." Most of New York's municipal organization of 3,000 professional relievers General Johnson planned to retain. For his immediate official family he "borrowed" Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. McGrady, former NRA Assistant Administrator, to supervise labor relations. Also from the old NRA organization come most...
...interest. In periods of stiff competition premium promotion shaves close to outright price-cutting, and a strenuous effort was made to ban premiums in XRA codes. But the premium makers succeeded in keeping no-premium clauses out of all except the Bakers and Oil Codes, are currently thriving. Another boon that has helped loft premium sales in the past two years from $250,000,000 to $400,000,000 annually is radio promotion, which now accounts for one-fourth of all thingumabobs distributed...
...peasants this forecast that the boon of private housekeeping will soon be conferred brought joy. Another mistake, according to Stalin via Yakovlev, has been the Dictator's attempt to stamp out all private cultivation whatever by peasants on collective farms. Forecast was a uniform system for Soviet peasants, now forcibly 80% collectivized, under which each family will enjoy not only private housekeeping but the further boon of tilling for its own private enjoyment between one and three acres...
Ahead throughout the game, the Crimson cagers crowned their season with glory by downing an emasculated Yale five on Saturday night, 35 to 18. The win was a boon to Coach Wes Fesler, ending his second year at Harvard, while it ended the Yale career of Elmer Ripley with a one-sided defeat...