Word: fillips
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...facts, avoided rhetoric. Eminent scientists were called to show why light beer was non-intoxicating. Industrialists offered opinions as to the fillip beer legalization would give U. S. business?$25,000,000 for delivery trucks, $320,000,000 for electrical equipment, $20,000,000 for refrigerators. $40,000,000 for wooden boxes, $50,000,000 for rail transportation...
...frenzy of excitement among brewers, ex-brewers and would-be brewers There has been tall talk of hundreds of millions to be spent on expanding and modernizing present equipment. While wise-acres discounted predictions that beer would put a million jobless to work, there was no denying the fillip it would give to allied industries...
...action served to stiffen rail bond prices, give rail stocks a gentle fillip. Pennsylvania was reported ready to bolt the merger plan rather than suffer exile from New England. Big Four executives called a meeting for this week to determine their next step. But bets were that the Depression, which had brought Pennsylvania's Atterbury, B. & O.'s Willard, New York Central's Crowley* and C. & O.'s Bernet together, would be over before every passenger coach and freight car in the East bears the name of one of their systems...
...four prisoners were ushered down a hall and into the office of Governor Lawrence McCully Judd. To each he handed a paper commuting their sentences to the time already served. By telescoping ten years into one hour the Kahahawai case was thus closed with one final dramatic fillip...
...wage conference and I'm hopeful for a solution of the railroads difficulties." He explained that $200,000,000 would come from a wage cut which, with the $100,000,000 from increased freight rates, would pull the carriers through. The Willard optimism gave a hopeful fillip to rail securities...