Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Howard Hughes's plane is owned by his own Hughes Aircraft Co. He will pay the entire cost of the trip, about $5,000, himself. Only connection of this private venture with the New York World's Fair is that he is the Fair's aeronautical adviser...
After President Lázaro Cárdenas seized great foreign oil properties this year, President Roosevelt explained for Mexico's benefit that the Good Neighbor policy "can never be merely unilateral. ... It is bilateral and multilateral and . . . the fair dealing which it implies must be reciprocated." But still, President Crdenas did nothing about paying for what he had grabbed. England got so huffy about the á treatment of her nationals that she broke off diplomatic relations with Mexico...
...Swithin's Day, if thou dost rain For forty days it will remain. St. Swithin's Day, if thou be fair. For forty days 'twill rain nae mair...
Died. Dennis Francis Kelly, 69, self-made Chicago philanthropist, good Catholic lay leader, retired president of The Fair (department store); of pneumonia; in Bergen, Norway...
...Proposed fair trade practice rules for the silk industry. As it has already done with the rayon industry, FTC at the request of certain members of the silk business drew up a proposed set of rules which will not go into effect until after a public hearing August 2. Points which upset the industry last week were that the label on silk state the exact proportion of metallic weighting and finishing materials in the goods, if any, and that the word "silk" may not be used in a firm's name unless a "substantial part" of its business...