Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even if a little advertising of the corn cure, roup remedy or rattlesnake oil type does appear in the ready-printed portions of many a small weekly, is this frank type of display any more harmful than some run by our larger brothers of the newspapers and magazines? Is a corn cure that is at least harmless any worse than a page spread which infers that the use of Gafoozlers' shaving cream will lead to business success, or that a given mouthwash will end social disappointments, or that 20 mail-order music lessons will make a Philharmonic performer...
Author Carmer went to the University of Alabama, near Tuscaloosa, as associate professor of English. He was greeted hospitably, despite the fact that he was born in New York State. On his first evening in Tuscaloosa he made the acquaintance of the Southern vin du pays, corn whiskey. He never learned to like it, calls it "as vile and as uglily potent a liquor as ever man has distilled." One day in class he made the innocent mistake of comparing Tuscaloosa's picturesqueness with a North African city. "On the next day six serious young men waited upon...
...York Clearing House Association to cover a $6,300,000 deficit in the bank's funds. The Government charged that the Clearing House members had promised Harriman Bank officers that they would not let the bank fail. Last week nine Clearing House members, including Chase National Bank, Corn Exchange Bank and Central Hanover Bank & Trust, agreed to settle the suit out of court, pay $2,835,000 as their share. That will bring payments to Harriman's 11,000 depositors up to 65? on the dollar. The other ten Clearing House members, including National City, Guaranty Trust...
...fork in April 1933. The left fork leads sharply up the rise which followed abandonment of gold. The right fork, which looks like a half-forgotten detour on the price map, is an index in terms of old gold dollars. This index shows that as a group hogs, corn, cotton, sugar, many another commodity, actually continued to decline until almost the end of last year, hardly moved off bottom until this spring. But by last week the Annalist index "in U. S. dollars" was pushing into the highest ground in more than three years. Despite a sudden rush of profit...
Last week the first transcontinental trains ever to pass through Denver chufied through the Moffatt Tunnel ("Gateway to Nowhere") and on to the West Coast- two double-header freights loaded with Nebraska corn, Colorado coal, stoves, grits, lumber, hoboes. Instead of going around through Pueblo to the south or Cheyenne to the north, they bored under the Continental Divide, rattled down the Denver & Salt Lake, switched off on the new Dotsero Cutoff to Denver & Rio Grande Western's main line into Salt Lake City. Next day the Governors of Colorado and Utah, the Mayors of Denver and Salt Lake...