Word: logs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Logrolling?" said Mr. Britten. "Log-rolling...
...Food companies held up well. General Foods (Postum, Log Cabin Syrup, Cheek-Neal Coffee, Frosted Foods etc.) showed $10,167,000 against $10,629,000. Beech-Nut Packing (bacon, chewing gum, also a hotel in Rochester, N. Y.) reported $1,172,000 against $1,320,000. Hershey Chocolate's $4,718,000 stood against $4,253,000. During the June quarter William Wrigley Jr. Co. showed a sensational gain from $2,365,000 to $3,057,000. International Salt's first six months' $399,000 compared with last year...
...good list of prospects. Most of them were old folks and clergymen who had subscribed to a series of books on dietetics written by one Eugene Christian. They liked ruddy-faced Clark W. Parker: he told them frankly that he had been born 69 years ago in a Michigan log cabin. His voice was impressive, his bearing dignified. He was a trustee of Manhattan's interdenominational Church of the Strangers. His corporation sounded good - motors and things. And all he would think of accept ing (at first) was $100 of their money...
...week-end guests at his Rapidan camp the President last week had Edsel Ford and Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of Porto Rico who is now reported to aspire to the Governorship of the Philippines. President Hoover reached the camp just in time to settle down before a big log fire and broadcast a brief speech dedicating Cornell University's War Memorial.* His theme: the patriotism of college men who went...
...better than any child I have, good as all mine are. Can this be because the wife is so good, or because I am a fool?" He loved to play chess with her, Pepyshly noted in his diary who won. He was a good sport. Once he sent some logs to the mill to be cut into boards. "The miller claimed the 'slab' and the first board in each log as a perquisite of the mill. Cooper demurred, and finally they clinched and wrestled and both fell into the chute. As they climbed out, Cooper shook himself...