Word: fillips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turn of the Century Frederic Adrian Delano, uncle of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, gave Dr. DeLee's pinched institution a big fillip by taking an interest that has never flagged. Dr. DeLee subsequently delivered four of Mr. Delano's grandchildren. Other high-born "DeLee babies": Alice Roosevelt Longworth's Paulina; Ruth Hanna McCormick's (Simms's) Katrina, Medill, Ruth. Such clientele helped Dr. DeLee prosper personally to such an extent that he could give Lying-in Hospital his check for $55,000 during a money-raising campaign. The Hospital is now affiliated with the University...
...cost of the stock. Continental sold up to about 23 times earnings and its $3 dividend gave the investor approximately 3% on his money. The ballyhoo over canned beer- a novelty which will not really meet its test until the summer of 1936-gave both can stocks an added fillip of enthusiasm which has been modified on second thought. Barring a slump in the 1936 fruit and vegetable pack, the future would appear to hold no menace for the can business which stands high among the more stable and profitable of U. S. industries...
...turkey-gobbler-villain banker, the solid youth who will go far, and the girl with bad blood who has come far enough. It was in orchestrating this hackneyed melody that Tinpanner Stong showed his real ability. And, whether as a sop to his own conscience or as a fillip to his fans' sentimental sadism, the conclusion was what cinemaddicts call unhappy. But readers closed the book in the faith that Hollywood's all-conquering love would surely be able to move this inconsiderable mountain...
...little is known except that winter wheat is seldom damaged by it because the stalks grow tough before the blight appears. But tender spring wheat is particularly susceptible this year because of late seeding. Rust reports flowed into Chicago from all important spring wheat districts last fortnight, giving a fillip to the wheat futures market. Some estimated a loss of 20,000,000 bu., nearly 10% of the spring crop. Last week the Department of Agriculture declared reports were greatly exaggerated but admitted that rust damage was "difficult to measure...
...policy, van Zeeland took a position opposite to President Roosevelt's. He announced nothing resembling the NRA, and headlines about NEW DEAL FOR BELGIUM could be charged off as oversimplified tosh. Chief effect of the European currency misgivings produced by Belgium's devaluation was to give a fillip to the notion that "Sterling is the best money," and Sterling soared against other currencies, gold and paper. Smug British bankers plumed themselves once again on the Empire's supremacy in creating sheer confidence out of whatever sheer confidence is made of. Keen in their quiet way, His Majesty...