Word: busting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...repudiate payment of most of Chile's foreign obligations and to "bust" the Guggenheim-controlled Cosach (nitrate trust) was the campaign pledge last week of two out of Chile's three leading candidates for the Presidency...
Advertisements in cheap, pornographic ("love" and "art") magazines conform to the standard of their fiction and illustrations but often fall a step lower. Pages are packed with announcements of "red hot" photographs, vigor tablets ("Glow of Life"), bust developers, sex secrets, aphrodisiacs ("Essence of Ecstasy"), contraceptives. Plentiful also are the advertisements of so-called matrimonial bureaus which will furnish lists of lonely men & women, object matrimony. Stressed in the advertisements, prominent on the lists are Wealthy Widows. Sample advertisements...
...shown the large square desk, with drawers, built-in ink-stands and space for a beerstein, which turns out to have a piano inside it. And in Bechstein's house in Berlin (not far from the sumptuous Bechstein salon in new. smart West End) rests the white marble bust of Richard Wagner which the composer sent in gratitude...
...Father of the Land We Love" was not to be sold commercially but was to be distributed free throughout the land by the Federal Commission for 1932 singing. However, after leaving the President's office, Mr. Bloom stopped in the White House press room, stepped up beside a bust of George Washington, and began to sing the first verse...
...Bust Trust," or Associated Apparel Industries, Inc. (corsets, brassieres, girdles, underwear) lost $132,000 against profits of $632,000 for six months ending May 31, despite a favorable trend in figure fashion...