Word: iced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last March the Pickford-Parsons friendship struck a reef because Miss Pickford had begun paying real money ($1,000 to $3,000) for guest appearances on her "Parties at Pickfair" program in the interest of National Ice Advertisers Inc. "Lolly"' Parsons threatened to blackball anyone who showed up at "Parties at Pickfair." This epic controversy was terminated when the Pickford program went off the air. Meanwhile, under the guidance of famed Radio Producer William ("Bill") Bacher, a onetime dentist, with Crooner Dick Powell and "Lolly" Parsons as continuing talent, Campbell's clambake goes serenely...
...this catch-all with holes through which slipped many a subsidiary by foreclosure and receivership. Over-capitalized at nearly a billion dollars, Middle West Utilities was reorganized into Middle West Corp., remained the groggy skeleton of a Midwest power empire which still included 44 active subsidiaries giving electricity, gas, ice to 2,100 communities in 15 Midwest States and Ontario, Canada. For this empire Middle West's creditors and stockholders fought bitterly for three and a half years in Chicago's Federal District Court. Winners were the banks who for their secured loans got 1,710,000 shares...
...what their native village is like today. Mostly naturalized in the U. S., they travel 3,500 miles to exclaim "What a dump!" In Soviet hotels guests are offered such strange alternatives as "You can have with your dinner either caviar or a fresh vegetable or ice cream...
...side, each compartment seating or sleeping three persons and containing a lavatory. Chief improvement, in addition to lightness, streamlining and quiet, is airconditioning, based on a new system. Previous sleepers have had cooling apparatus which never succeeded because it was too heavy. The new lightweight system, installed by Dry-Ice Appliance Corp. of Mount Vernon, Ill., consists of a chemical refrigerant piped around the girth of the bus after passing over carbon dioxide. A 12-hr, run in 100° temperature requires 100 lb. of dry ice. Cost...
...National Distillers Products, which makes flavorings for candy and ice cream, as well as hard liquor, was one of the few U. S. corporations to show a drop in earnings for the first half-$2,760,000 as against...