Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less pained were other clerics the following day when the stock was ordered sold. Slender white-haired Douglas Vickers, director general of the firm that bears his name, was far too busy last week to pay attention to all this. Other arms tycoons have their hobbies: postage stamps, hybrid tea roses, Louis Seize furniture, after-dinner speeches about peace. Making money is the hobby of Director General Vickers, who is also a very active partner in the London brokerage house of Vickers D'Acosta. Fourteen months ago a munitions scandal shook Rumania. Army officers were charged with having accepted...
...Depression the number of such fearful men grew so great that Rolls-Royce sales since 1931 fell off over 50% to $926,000. Last week, after four years of Depression deficits, Rolls-Royce hit upon a brand new idea. President John S. Inskip put on display in Manhattan a hybrid 'luxury" car, the Brewster "Cabriolet de Ville," with which he hoped to develop a new market. It had a Brewster body, a Ford chassis, a Ford V-8 engine. Price: $3,500. President Inskip had wangled a contract out of Henry Ford to supply engines and chassis in bulk...
...Harlem on Parade" I liked; among other things it demonstrates that the miscegenation which will solve our soft-pedalled race problem will produce a hybrid people of wit, ingenuity and capability not at all inferior to the smugly haughty pure Americano, and comely to boot. Point for point this black-and-tan show surpasses the usual run of stage filler offered in the movie mosques; this is said with full consciousness that "Harlem on Parade" is in places unduly dull, smutty, and often merely nerve-shattering...
...having their oratorical science debased by the introduction of frivolity. There is a definite place for a course or practice of round-table public discussion, a kind of glorified and intelligent bull-session on a specified subject, but there can be no compromise between debating and conference argumentation. A hybrid will but bring discredit to both arts. --Cornell Daily...
Other people believed in Arthur Joseph Morris and the "hybrid and mongrel" notion of banking became the Morris Plan banks in 150 U. S. cities. Founded on a desire to provide the laboring man with a better source of credit than the fleecing loan shark, the Morris Plan is today dignified by the name "industrial banking." Morris Plan Banks ("companies" in some states where only an orthodox bank may use the word) make loans of $50 to $5,000 largely on character, earning power and two indorsements - a type of business which many commercial banks find un profitable. Some...