Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State game warden, failed to find him at home. Few minutes later an unemployed chauffeur reported that he had been attacked by two owls at the scene of Mrs. Newell's encounter but had escaped injury by sprinting and beating at the birds with his hands. Without further concern for the law, a patrolman was sent with a shotgun to the spot, which is opposite the Pocantico Hills estate of the late John D. Rockefeller. The policeman killed one owl, was joined by a Rockefeller warden who shot down four more...
...chameleons are more popular in the U. S. than any other reptile. Like hot dogs or lollipops, they are peddled in great numbers by circuses, fairs and carnivals, mostly to people who have no idea how to feed and water them. This wholesale trade was last week giving some concern to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, because it has been found that chameleons help Florida celery growers by eating destructive caterpillars and moths, and the Department now believes that they help suppress insect pests on other truck crops in Southeastern and Gulf States. No law banning their sale...
...measured against the needs to be filled and the capacity available to fill them, or when compared wit the past; and if the industries are allowed to operate with efficiency, keep their cost down, and price their goods at levels that will keep trade going, there will be little concern as to business in the second half year...
...largely German-owned Siemens electric works who had skipped to the mountains for a few days while the city was taken. "Most gratifying! On returning to my office this morning, I find everything just as before." Undamaged too was the Firestone Hispania tire factory near Galdacano, a concern in which 75% of the capital is Spanish, the rest U. S. Worst trouble was that none of the paper money in Bilbao was any good, its Rightist captors insisting that only their paper had value, and supplies of this had not yet arrived. Temporarily the Rightists distributed food free, a form...
this was a good deal more than most British or French editors cared to swallow and their tart comments made Adolf Hitler angrier still, as the Government of His Britannic Majesty learned with grave concern. King George VI was so worried that harassed Anthony Eden was kept reporting constantly in person at Buckingham Palace...