Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture painted for the 15,000,000 current U. S. investors by Author Reis is as disheartening as that which a 1933 book 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs painted for purchasers of a long list of U. S. advertised products. Mr. Reis's basic point is that, though the public assumes the New Deal has made U. S. banking and finance safe for the small investor, nothing of the sort has yet taken place. After long, sorry rehearsals of fiscal crimes committed "rider the Old Deal, he delivers this warning cry: "It is imperative that the investor rid himself...
...good newspaperman would rather have his name above a story than in it. Last week Morris Watson, legal guinea-pig of the American Newspaper Guild's test case against the Associated Press (TIME, June 29 et seq.), not only had his name in a story but that story was before the Supreme Court of the United States and its climax became the law of the land...
...that offered themselves to the Bureau scientists on the second floor of Hemingway Gymnasium as human guinea pigs, only one was a hopelessly glare-blind individual. Two of the men were half blind, and one fellow, in a brown suit, could see the man on the miniature highway as clearly as a far-seeing child of six. He said he was a Senior...
...last made news when he and his wife, Cinemactress Lili Damita, announced last December that they would go on a second honeymoon instead of getting a divorce, was known to the barroom clientele of Sydney, Australia, as a happy-go-lucky, well-set-up young Irishman from the New Guinea gold fields who had lately celebrated himself into a sanatorium, had not been on his uppers long before his abandoned claim was bought for $5,000. One morning he woke up to find that somewhere along his way he had paid out most...
...Coral Sea they hit bad weather. The Sirocco leaked like a screen, was ready to go to pieces until they let it run with the gale. After three days of it, more dead than alive, they reached New Guinea, found a native pilot and set out for Port Moresby. Two days away, in a sudden cyclone, the Sirocco was smashed to splinters on a reef, "kindly, lovable old Dook" drowned...