Word: done
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...making money on its journalistic merits alone. The thriving Paris Soir is owned by Billionaire Henri Beghin, French beet sugar and paper tycoon, and by Textile Tycoon Jean Prouvost. The dull Temps is the handmaiden of the heavy industries. Still another few, like Communist Humanite have their worrying done for them in foreign capitals...
...described his own experience after taking a handful of reefers (marijuana cigarets) as an experiment. He crawled into a bottle of ink, stayed there 200 years, took a peep over the bottle's neck, ducked back and wrote a book about what he saw. When the book was done, he popped out of the inkwell, shook his wings, flew around the world seven times...
...consideration specifically ordered by Judge Stone. Meanwhile, in Washington, a Senate committee, studying a bill to require separation of marketing petroleum from producing, refining and transporting it. heard monopoly-hating Senator Borah claim that "four or five big oil companies" control the price of gas and oil and have done so "for four or five years...
According to officials of a Northern mail-order house-which one the inspectors would not say-Bug Tussle had done them out of $6,000 worth of overalls and kitchen stoves. The citizens had done it, they said, simply by giving themselves as references for each other and nobody ever seemed to have paid for what he ordered. One of them even got his cat an A credit rating. The inspectors are afraid they will have to make some more arrests, but they think it fortunate for their case that they will be able to take the erring citizens...
...This country has the best, the most extensive, the most widely used and the cheapest telephone service in the world. In spite of this, it would appear that fault has been found with almost everything this company has done throughout its existence. This just does not make sense...