Word: labelers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Free Press had swiftly countered by getting at Father Coughlin's bank and brokerage accounts. Photostating one of them with the label "smart money," it showed that Father Coughlin's balances had been as high as $55,516.20 in June 1930, that in the same year he had lost $13,955.89 on a $30,110.89 stock deal. The Free Press showed that Father Coughlin had sometimes deposited $20,000 at a time in $1 bills- gifts from radio listeners -and that part of the stock he bought was paid for with money from the account of the radio...
...safe . . . spoils no faster and no slower in the open can than in any other container." Some acid foods "like fruit and tomatoes, when stored in an open can, do tend to dissolve iron. This may give the food a sightly metallic taste that is not harmful. If the label on the can advises removing the contents as soon as the can is opened, it is because the canners think that an open can, partly filled with food, is not attractive in appearance...
...their convention the superintendents had chosen a label, "New Frontiers for American Life." This permitted some oratory: "Frontiers have been the wealth, the opportunity, and the luring hope of America. . . . Pioneers pushed out into the unexplored wilds-across the Appalachians, over the prairies, scaled the Rocky Mountains and finally were stopped by the immensity of the Pacific Ocean." (Professor Thomas Henry Briggs of Teachers College.) It also permitted some sense: "The pioneer had mosquitoes but he was free from questionnaires." (Ernest Clark Hartwell, Buffalo's Superintendent of Schools...
Looking closely at a Pabst label one may see a large B inscribed on one of the hop leaves. It stands as a memento to one Jacob Best who started the business in the 1840s. In 1862 his granddaughter married Captain Frederick Pabst of the S. S. Huron. By the time the Chicago fire of 1871 left the Milwaukee brewers supreme in their territory Capt. Pabst had taken over the company and had his name painted over its portals. Capt. Pabst was an epicure, would rather sip good wine than quaff beer. So it was a proud...
...plans. Prices, they promise, will not be exorbitant. Unemployed draughtsmen and department stores are not the only people to benefit. Frames for the doll houses are made at Greenwich House Workshops, a semi-charitable institution to teach handiwork to New York children. Each doll house bears a Delano & Aldrich label, is a fine advertisement for the firm...