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Word: dolefully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smartest trick of the week was a decision by His Majesty's Government that, whereas His Majesty's subjects will vote on Nov. 14, dole payments to unemployed with children will be upped one-third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Amazing Fourteenth | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

...world's simplest corporations voted to dissolve itself. Known as Pineapple Holding Co., Ltd., its entire assets consist of $37,500 in cash and 500,000 shares of Hawaiian Pineapple Co., Ltd., successor to an earlier company of the same name founded by James D. Dole in 1901. As all the holding company does is to hold, it reports no income, no outgo, no profit, no loss. It was formed in 1932 (along with the present Pineapple Co.) to straighten out the tangled affairs of the Dole company, which had grown long on inventory, short on cash. Its president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Pineapples Straight | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

Back in 1930 there seemed little likelihood that Jim Dole and his pineapples would ever get themselves into financial straits. Pineapples for U. S. consumption are practically a Hawaiian monopoly and the Dole company, along with California Packing and Libby, McNeill & Libby, dominated the industry. In 1930 the pack was 11,300,000 cases, of which Mr. Dole put up 4,500,000 cases. First Hawaiian sight glimpsed by travelers arriving from the "mainland" is an enormous pineapple (really a 400-ton water tank in disguise) on the roof of the Dole cannery. And along with Diamond Head. Pearl Harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Pineapples Straight | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

Depression caught Mr. Dole between two fires. First, there was a tremendous overproduction in California fruit, especially peaches. Pineapples cost more than peaches but cannot maintain sales if the price differential becomes too wide. Thus, as the peach price level crashed, pineapple prices slumped also. Second, Mr. Dole could do nothing to cut pineapple production, because it takes about two years to grow a pineapple and Mr. Dole was reaping in 1932 as he had sown in 1930. Result: unmarketable pineapples piled up in Mr. Dole's factory, their stench polluting the Hawaiian air. Further result: pineapples dropped from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Pineapples Straight | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

...become Premier now in coalition must steer a tortuous middle course: on one side are established bourgeois elements who still cast most of the ballots, and on the other the restive toilers who do not know what they want but are broadly out to soak the rich, raise the dole, nationalize railways and public utilities and probably amend the British North America Act, since this is apparently a brittle bulwark against change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: New Viceroy; General Election | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

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