Word: liquidating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even beasts of other colors are ruthlessly driven from the protecting shelter, not, alas, out merely into the humdrum whirl of exhaust-filled urbanity, but straightway to meet the ill-aimed shots of citified big game hunters; allowed no longer like the cows to give forth their flowing liquid...
...stock to the RFC capital had increased from $1,000,000 to $3,500,000. But the American Banker discovered that instead of lending more freely in the best Jones manner, the Jones bank had substantially increased its cash and Government bond holdings until it was more than 80% liquid. Loans & discounts had actually decreased. The Jones bank was rock-sound but apparently it had found good borrowers as scarce as any non-Jones bank in the land...
Several Army and Navy officers, a few scientists including Radio Engineer Greenleaf Whittier Pickard, a doctor or two, some newshawks, a dentist, the head of Liquid Carbonic Corp. and a handful of his employes stood in a circle last week in the company's one-story brick building in the malodorous gashouse district of Cambridge, Mass. In the middle of the room was a steel tank big enough to hold a pony. It was lined with i.ooo Ib. of frozen carbon dioxide, popularly called "dry ice." The temperature inside was somewhere between...
...free method," it consisted of a minute variation in technique, which permitted a few brush strokes to show. Chief disciple of this revolt in an art which Samuel Pepys correctly called "painting in little" was able Rosina Cox Boardman with two landscapes. A Meadow swam with a bright liquid green, simple masses of purple hills. Barn in the Valley showed a dazzling vista in miniature. In each the stroke of the brush was faintly apparent to a sharp-focused...
...familiar is the so-called "Leadville Moon," a subtle growth of the Rockies, dark in color, shimmering in the light of a candle with a glow almost not of this earth, giving a hint of powers unknown to the average mortal. Its taste is, to be sure, that of liquid fire; but it does not have burn of straight alcohol; there is an aroma, a purging afterglow, and a solid, settled feeling which delves down to the soles of one's feet, which lets it be known that this is the drink of rugged individualism. There is something...