Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Jardine protested, however, that similar statements on the price situations of major farm commodities have been prepared monthly for two years by his Department to help farmers anticipate the future. Secretary Jardine thought that the cotton speculators had been "unduly disturbed," and wondered why they had not become excited last month when the cotton forecast of Aug. 15 explicitly predicted cheap cotton "in the immediate future...
Financing. Emergency finance corporations are at work with mort- gage-holders and local banks to help farmers finance their 1928 crops...
...Denver, tore the papers to tatters, heaped them high, squirted them with kerosene, touched off a match and cried out over the flames: "Do you think I want homes in Denver ruined? . . . All you poor girls, you troubled women, who have given me your confidence that I might help you, rest now in peace. Your secrets are safe...
William S. Thompson, Western Union telegraph operator, last week announced the invention of a device that will transmit distress sig- nals (or any other messages) automatically, thus releasing the oper- ator from his duty of signaling for help even while the ship sinks. It can be used on airplanes as well...
...Cleveland's Fairview Park Hospital, Mrs. Sam Smith's time came. Orderlies trundled her to the delivery room. Her own doctor, J. A. W. Reutenik was not there. An interne, P. B. Hisrich, was to help her; and to help him were the hospital's director of obstetrics, Nurse Ruth Meyer, and a student nurse...