Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago an independent California concern went a step farther toward simplified wine making. They put on the market a patented grape concentrate in solid form about the size of a pound of print butter. Known as Vino Sano, selling at $2 each, these nonalcoholic wine bricks were flavored sherry, champagne, port, claret, muscatel, et al. Instructions came in the form of warnings against dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, adding sugar, shaking daily and decanting after three weeks. Unless the buyer eschewed these processes, 13%, wine would be produced. Vino Sano's "Don'ts" were...
...President's first concern was to dam the rising tide of wage cuts. For a few hours last week it looked almost as if his administration's policy, laid down in 1929, to maintain existing pay schedules had been reversed. Representative Condon of Rhode Island, scene of recent textile strikes, wrote Secretary of Commerce Lamont complaining of wage reductions, asking for Federal support to stop them. Mr. Lamont replied: "As the period of depression lengthens, many corporations find themselves in extremely difficult positions. Many of them have already cut dividends and salaries. Some of them are faced with...
...motherly proprietress, who makes succulent pastries; by her small granddaughter (Ray Dooley) who uses carpet sweepers as roller-skates and is continually scratching herself; and by an itinerant king who happens into the hotel and stays because he likes the pie, Dowling makes his venture a howling success. Subplots concern his romance with the niece of the rival hotelkeeper, the effects of right living on a case-hardened gambler and two thuggish assistants. Far from a great picture, perhaps not even a good one, Honeymoon Lane should continue to enrich its originator, to amuse cinemaddicts who are partial to bromidic...
...part of the national domain" by diverting the whole flow of the St. Lawrence; 2) the Government's permission had been illegally obtained; 3) Beauharnois officials had sought to corrupt the Government since then; 4) Senator McDougald, with no other than a promoter's interest in the concern, had, while a Senator of Canada, received from it large quantities of stock, worth some $30,000,000. Investigation had proved that Beauharnois had spent nearly $1,000,000 on the campaign funds of both Liberal and Conservative candidates who might be friendly to the project. Names involved: Senators Andrew...
Rural Education, President Hale's particular concern, had been chosen one of the chief subjects to be discussed. Some points...