Word: grains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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France signed with the understanding that it may place a 15% surtax on U. S. imports to counteract the fall of the dollar, may raise the surtax still higher if the dollar falls lower. To be excluded from France as an example of dumping is grain for which farmers receive guaranteed prices from a Government marketing agency...
Four years ago Los Angeles followed Chicago's lead, started a Businessmen's Orchestra under L. M. Bardet, a grain & feed man. Akron. Ohio, has an orchestra composed of doctors and dentists, organized so efficiently that when its members are called out on emergency cases there are alternate players ready to take their places...
...milk is "milky." Milky and meaty may not be served at the same meal. The housewife must keep two complete sets of dishes and utensils. Salting (melihah) of meat to remove all blood is a final koshering rite. The rabbis, however, allow for "neutral," or parve foods-vegetables, grain products, fish, eggs. Neutral dishes may be prepared as meaty or milky. An illegitimate mixture of foods is tre- fah or terephah. Terephah literally means "an animal torn by wild beasts." It applies especially to the slaughter of animals, or shechitah. Shechitah. The shochet is the one who does the slaughtering...
While the economic tinkering of Congress and the inflationary spurts of grain and stock prices last week made spectacular excitement, more fundamental good news appeared in at least two industries...
...perhaps the greatest of the Irish playwrights, as he listened through a chink in the floor of his upstairs room in a little peasant house where he lived to learn and understand the Irish, would appreciate this box-office phrasing. Since O'Casey and Yeats take it with a grain of salt, it must be necessary. The plays are simple and forthright in action. What has made them works of art and at the same time given them market value is the conviction with which their creators seize upon Irish life, portraying it on the stage with truth and sympathy...