Word: creams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personal "recommendations and reactions." He said he wanted to clarify ideas for the party's 1932 platform. He called for a tariff of "fair trade," for a farm relief "that will rebound to the benefit of the whole country." He discussed economic competition in terms of tooth paste, shaving cream, automobiles, radios. He demanded a platform "brief?like the Declaration of Independence." But everyone knew, or acted as though, he was really talking only about Prohibition...
Altitude. A scarlet-and-cream Lockheed-Vega, with handsome Socialite Ruth Nichols at the controls, roared into the sky over Manhattan, settled into a steady climb of nearly an hour's duration. A thermometer on the wing stopped registering at 45° below zero. A high west wind blew the ship backwards, nearly five miles out to sea. Miss Nichols, breathing oxygen that nearly froze her tongue, forced the ship higher and higher until fuel was exhausted, descended with an apparent altitude record for women (subject to confirmation) of more than 30,000 ft. Existing record...
...American-Hawaiian Steamship 1,187 285 American Locomotive 6,851 3,778 American Thermos Bottle 323 201 Baldwin Locomotive Works 2,300 3,036 Bon Ami 1,455 1,356 Century Ribbon Mills 27D 172D Chrysler Corp 21,902 234 Consolidated Cigar 3,314 2,372 Cream of Wheat 1,882 1,868 Drug 17,013 21,123 Gabriel 618D 98D General Bronze 1,128 969D General Printing Ink 1,378 850 Hayes Body 245D 852D Houston Oil 1,731 1,655 Lehigh Valley Coal 1,190 714 Marshall Field 9,218 4.724 Mathieson Alkali 2,324 2,096 National...
...Cream of the collection is a beautifully preserved 16th Dutch Antiphon, or church chorus, with fine illumination and interesting musical notation. Other items are a complete set of the first edition of Walter Scott's writings, probably the only one existing; one of the three inscribed books by Thomas Hardy; Edmund Gosse's autographed set of Keats; first edition; a unique and beautifully bound set of Mark Twain with some of the original manuscript inserted; a set of Shaw's works, all autographed, and unequalled for its completeness...
...longer hazardous to go to Boston debuts. No Man's Land has become coeducational, and the grade A Cream of both sexes is clotted. No longer must a first rate girl undergo agonies for fear she is dancing, with a Z boy. They are all classified now, Harvard and the debs. Deep will call unto deep. Audacious, who prefers to travel incognito, has done it again...