Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stay in New York I have heard . . . half a dozen great industrial leaders . . . some of whose names are familiar on both sides of the Atlantic . . . treat the recent stockmarket panic as lightly as one might regard an attack of chicken pox on a strong and growing youth. . . . Be a bull on America and you cannot go wrong! is one of their favorite sayings...
...world what he thinks, feels, hopes about the world's mundane affairs. It also can be depended upon, no matter how neglectful may be the Fascist press of Italy and the lay press of other countries, to print each & every syllable of each & every statement, pronunciamento, bull and encyclical which His Holiness may wish to issue on affairs secular or spiritual...
...indicative of a subconscious feeling in literary circles that the American reading public is in danger of developing a psychopathic personality on a large scale. To prevent any such general tendency towards self-consciousness and introspection, the Benchleys and the Stewarts have taken it upon themselves to grasp the bull by the horns; and whatever else may be said for them, these efforts are unquestionably amusing...
Confederate Generals would well serve as a guard of honor for their President-Edmund Kirby Smith from Florida, whom Davis saw fighting at Bull Run, the last Confederate Commander to surrender his arms (May 26, 1865); Joseph Wheeler from Alabama, second only to Stuart as a cavalry general, who lived long enough to command U. S. troops as a major-general of volunteers at the Battle of San Juan in the Spanish War; Wade Hampton from South Carolina, aristocrat and planter, leader of "Hampton's Legion" at Bull Run, commander of Lee's cavalry after Stuart...
American Tobacco Co. handles about one-third of the cigaret and smoking tobacco, about one-fourth of the plug tobacco sold in the U. S. Among its many familiar brands are Sweet Caporal, Pall Mall, Lucky Strike cigarets, Bull Durham and Half and Half smoking tobaccos. Sales last year totaled some $200,000,000. The advertising appropriation on Lucky Strikes alone was estimated at $12,300,000. As the largest fragment of Thomas Fortune Ryan's Tobacco Trust, which the government dissolved in 1911, American Tobacco Co. occupies in its field somewhat the position held by Standard...