Word: food
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rats!" snapped Mr. Montgomery to his studio ratters, and ear-cocked terriers dashed excitedly to the chase in countless homes of England. "Lie down," "Find it," "Jump over the poker," went more commands. Rattling food pans and garbage cans, the Montgomerys for a memorable 15 minutes had every listening dog in England in a dither. When a Montgomery Dalmatian greedily chewed up a dog biscuit before the microphone, dog-owners reported widespread mouth watering. When Montgomery fox terriers, Peter and Jock, got to growling, hackles rose the length and breadth of Britain. When Tippler, a tough Corgi, refused to "speak...
...furniture makers were cheerful as buyers placed orders for Kentwood. Although home-building bucked the recession tide, the furniture industry did not. Furniture follows the general business cycle rather than the building cycle, and the automobile has long since displaced it as Public Want No. 2 (No. 1 is food & clothing). But even in 1938 manufacturers turned out nearly $400,000,000 worth of furniture, double their 1932 volume, and forecasters are cheerful about the industry's 1939 prospects. Grand Rapids is especially cheerful about Kentwood's prospects...
...with Phillips Brooks House and its social service work. The critics charge that P.B.H. wasn't fulfilled to the best of its ability its position as Harvard's welfare organization. For until last year P.B.H. was doing little else but furnishing settlement workers and giving out holiday baskets of food to needy families. The importance of these functions, especially the former one, should not be underrated; it is still important to continue them. But they are really remedies for social ills and scarcely preventatives...
...Student Union last night passed a resolution supporting the workers, and formed a large strike committee to provide food and new headquarters for the Georgian employees. Student backing will be sought for a boycott of all Georgian cafeterias...
Although the Student Union as a whole has taken no stand on the strike, the Labor Committee promptly swung into action, providing the strikers with food and a headquarters, and circulating petitions enlisting student support in the Houses and the Yard...