Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis is, of course, a Negro but not a darky. I expect Mr. Louis would much rather be dubbed "nigger," than darky. The word "nigger" dees mean something; darky is nothing at all. . . My dear father was at Shiloh with General Grant April...
...most notable editorial dis tinction embraces a wider scope. With unabashed possessiveness, P. I. has labeled the modern U. S. business world "the advertiser system." The essential of this system is a realization of the community of interest between capital and labor. In practical terms this would mean an unfailing flow of purchasing power to the consumer which would enable him to buy the goods of mass production. In its first issue, July 15, 1888, P. I. insisted on the "mutuality of dependence'' between capital and labor which "cannot be put to mutually beneficial use unless there...
Booloo (Paramount) is a Malay word presumed to mean "fur and feathers." For authentic fur-&-feather footage, Cinemad-venturer Clyde Elliott (Bring 'Em Back Alive) toted his cameras to Northern Malaya. Paramount sheared away most of what he brought back, brushed up a Booloo of its own, a crude hocus-pocus about a white tiger, worshiped by Sakai tribesmen and kept in good fur on a diet of maidens...
...three Mills mills were in the business; last year they merged as Rayonier Inc. During the fiscal year reported last week, it produced 204,000 tons of dissolving pulp, an increase of 50%, about a fifth of the world output. Rayonier's record earnings do not mean that it has not felt Depression II-opening, of its new $8,000,000 mill at Fernandina, Fla., originally scheduled for August, is being postponed...
...coach fares for Eastern railroads from 2? to 2½? a mile. Having refused this grant three months ago, the Interstate Commerce Commission reversed itself in keeping with the Government's broad policy of being as lenient as possible with the hard-pressed roads. But the new fares mean only an estimated rise of $32,000,000 in yearly income for the roads involved, only a slight aid since the Eastern roads are losing about $13,000,000 a month...