Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Withdraw aid gradually, let child realize he is doing it himself. (Mother soft-pedaled her urgings, beamed confidently. At length, in his own good time, Junior laughed, seized the cup, drained...
...have their pictures taken. Portraitists have flourished in England ever since the Ger man Holbein, the Flemish Van Dyck came to make their everlasting fame & fortune at the British court. For 200 years Eng land has painted most of its own portraits, in good times even manages to export a surplus crop. Such British painters as Augustus John, Simon Elwes, Frank O. Salisbury, the late Anglicized Philip de Laszló have reaped a golden harvest from U. S. tycoons and socialites anxious to show a good face to posterity...
...more definite than that were the other generalizations of the four-day gathering and boat trip. Bankers saw small chance of Government agencies taking over their functions, denounced Federal deficits, deplored the growth of the Government-inspired U. S. "gimme" attitude, felt that no long-run good would come to U. S. business from World War II. On one issue, however, they were with President Roosevelt. They wanted the neutrality act revised...
Tobacco's bad year followed a good year. Last December, when tobacco growers were called to a crop-control referendum, they had just finished disposing of a big (800-million-pound) crop at the satisfying average price of 22? per pound. They sneered at the compulsory quotas Henry Wallace wanted them to vote and proceeded to plant a far greater acreage this year than quota allotments would have permitted. Fine weather favored the growing, and up sprouted 1,014,000,000 pounds of fat tobacco, 200 million pounds more than a maximum year's consumption...
...portion or the savings it could make on operation. To Mayor Scholtz's committee, astounded by the low earnings under city management (2½%), flabbergasted by a helter-skelter rate structure (51½% of Louisville consumers pay too much, 30% too little), it sounded like a good idea...