Word: hogging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...directors to pay out as much as 99% of earnings in dividends rather than 27% in surplus profits tax. Contented stockholders would buy more stock, return to their company as much cash or more than they received in dividends. One of the first big companies to go the whole hog on this method of making everybody but the Collector of Internal Revenue happy was Sears, Roebuck & Co., which paid out approximately all it earned to its 34,500 stockholders, then proceeded to sell them $43,000,000 worth of new stock (TIME, Nov. 9). Since then the necessity to replenish...
...Smart farmers use the so-called 12-10-1 corn-hog formula to determine whether it is more profitable to sell corn as corn or as pork The formula: when 100 Ib. of hog is worth more nan 12 bu. of corn, raise hogs: when worth less, sell corn. At farm prices hogs are now sellmg for about $11 per cwt., while 12 bu of corn are worth more than $15. Thus corn is favored. Originated during the War when Herbert Hoover, the Food Administrator, was trying to boost hog production, the formula is actually 11.6-to-1, but farmers...
...objection to the material in hand or to stubborn faith in it. Woman Chases Man is a haywire story made in the mold of the current vogue for haywire stories. After wavering on the fringes of light comedy for a little while, it sheds its inhibitions and goes whole hog into farce...
...Pomp and Circumstance," March Elgar *Overture, "Fingal's Cave" ("The Hebrides") Mendelssohn *Ave Maria Schubert-Wilhelmj *"New Vienna," Waltzes Strauss Austrian Peasant Music Schonher Wedding March (Hallstatt, 1800) "Schuhplattler" (Tyrol) "G'stramfter" (Salzburg) "Sautanz" ("Hog Dance," Tyrol) "Zwoaschritt" (Two-step, Styria) *Overture "Light Cavalry" Suppe *Intermezzo from "Cavalleria Rusticana" Mascagni *Victor Herbert Favorites Arranged by Sanford *Prayer of Thanksgiving (Old Dutch Hymn) Valerius-Kremser...
...Whole Hog, Abruptly from Rome this week came official press outbursts which many Fascists thought presaged whole-hog intervention in Spain by Italy to wipe out the stain of the "Little Caporetto." Il Duce's newsorgans smeared Russia, France and Mexico with charges that those Governments have run arms to the Spanish Leftists in a whole list of instances which the Rome press hotly particularized, roasting especially "France's flagrant violations of the neutral Non-intervention accord signed at London...