Word: defunction
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...year-old Giles Wetherill to distribute his product. For several years the Wetherill family have marketed Hyper-Humus, a New Jersey peat older than Silber's Maine variety by a mere 10,000,000 years. Day before Richard Whitney went to jail he offered Giles Wetherill his near-defunct Florida Humus Co. ''for the price of a good automobile"; but Wetherill said he wanted peat bogs, not lawsuits. Humus has sold a piddling 10,000 tons per year, has nevertheless made a small profit since 1934. American Peat's production plans call for 125,000 bales...
...investigate in Manhattan last week, appeared a small, excitable Italian in grey shirt and black string tie. Girolamo Valenti's mission is to keep Benito Mussolini out of the U. S. He is chairman of the Italian Anti-Fascist Committee, was editor of La Stampa Libra, now defunct. Mr. Valenti told the investigators a startling story about how Mussolini is roping in U. S. school children...
Supreme Court, while 3,000 frenzied angels were getting ready to descend on their new heaven, liquidators of a defunct bank brought action to collect old judgments totaling $1,007 against Roosevelt-hating Howland Spencer, who conveyed the estate to Father Divine (TIME...
...Left-Wing opinion. The New Deal was designed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, a millionaire political demagogue, for the purpose of prolonging the life of the archaic and defunct capitalistic system...
...been proven by the Graduate School of Education and the defunct Film Foundation that visual education increases the rate of learning by 25 per cent, that of retention by 38 per cent. Progressive schools and colleges are depending more and more upon moving pictures to supplement oral and book teaching. Realizing that the field is still in rompers, the H.F.S. would like to work with the School of Education in doing research. But any research and any end of the waste now rampant because of financial insecurity and duplication of movie equipment are unthinkable without the donation of a reasonable...