Word: boons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sort of thing famed Hormone-Maker Russell Earl Marker of Penn State expected to see splashed all over the papers last week. Reason: he had just told chemists about his new, cheap, artificial production of three powerful sex hormones (testosterone, progesterone and desoxy-corticosterone), from sarsaparilla root compounds. A boon to doctors, Professor Marker's synthetic hormones will cost far less than natural sheep and cow products. Professor Marker warned Penn State's publicity department to warn the press not to sensationalize his sarsaparilla. Worried Penn State promptly sent out the following "confidential" release...
...holiday on Thursday would be a boon to all elbow-benders at Harvard. Nectar's gift to the grandstands would receive its full share of attention if the pending defeat of Eli were to be celebrated beginning Thursday," Davis said...
...United States, this solution is the happiest conceivable regardless of our strong democratic sympathies. It would save us from a probable re-enactment-only on a more terrible scale of the 1917 debacle. To the world as a whole, such a peace would be a boon from the gods. It would forestall a war which is beyond comprehension in its savage intensity, and which could well presage a return to barbarism...
Secondly, the Coop has grown into a full fledged department store. Its inventory-from soap dishes to suits-encompasses anything a student might possibly desire. It is a great boon to the students. And of course there's a dividend...
Second Grade Rail bonds (mostly in danger of default) found war a boon, for war traffic might hoist many a railroad back to solvency. Typical reactions: during the week, Southern Pacific's 4^3 of 1968 went from 40^ to 48^, the 4^5 of 2013 of the New York Central from" 44! to 55^; the Dow-Jones average from...