Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan Chairman Walter Frew of Corn Exchange Bank Trust Co., whose statements anyone is supposed to be able to understand, pointed out that his commercial loans now amounted to only $9,000,000, whereas that item used to run as high as $50,000,000. As for return on his money, Banker Frew was averaging only 4.28% on mortgages, 4.12% on loans and discounts, 2.96% on Government bonds, which at the year end comprised more than one-half of all the bank's earning assets...
...Year I modestly nominate myself. I am neither monarch, dictator, fuhrer, president or even a deposed king. Nor am I a movie star, postmaster, baseball player, maestro or champion corn husker. I am just an average American Business...
...eight-day voyage can survive a two-day flight. Last week, in the December number of the Uni-versity of California Alumni Monthly, an article called Doctors, Insects and Air Routes explained a new harbor hygiene against inbound contagion. To halt immigration of any more such pests as the corn-borer, Japanese beetle or red scale, the U. S. Public Health Service insists that all planes from South America or Asia must be sprayed. Pan American Airways conscientiously sprays its Pacific Clippers with a pyrethrum extract at each stop. Aircraft from Canada and Europe, where pests and diseases are rarer...
...father's amphitheatre, Walter Brown was foiled by the problem of how to get snow indoors without importing it at prohibitive expense until one day, passing a Boston fish store, he noticed a handsome cod packed in ice that was chopped up so fine it looked like corn snow. The fish dealer's iceman showed him his ice-grinding machine. Walter Brown ordered bigger copies that would grind ice smaller. Last week it took 500 tons of ice fed through grinders to keep the floor and ski slide snowy. During performances of the show, spectators were spellbound when...
...determined to spend lots of government money on actors in spite of the "Secretary of the Budget," Al Smith, the Liberty League and an unrealistically tight-fisted committee of U. S. Senators. Very much on the awful, side of O Say Can You Sing? are some of the unbelievably corn-fed wisecracks which Librettists Sid Kuller and Ray Golden expect Comedian Whitehead to put across. Inviting a "fine feathered frenzy" to "cut himself a piece of throat and make himself at home," Whitehead observes that "only God can make a trio...