Word: melone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cotton, wheat, tobacco, peanuts) made similar recoveries of some $150,000,000. Thus the august Court had, in effect, declared a $200,000,000 melon for U. S. farm-product processors. By last week many a processors' customer was impatiently looking for his cut. In Manhattan a small, blond Ultimate Consumer named Edwin Reiskind brought suit "on behalf of myself and all other consumers of agricultural products." This Russian-born left-winger sought to restrain Standard Milling Co., National Biscuit Co., Wheatena Corp., Postum Co., Consolidated Cigar Corp., Corn Products Refining Co. and 19 other companies from "disposing...
...again declared to be the most promising playwright in the land. Again he got generous credit for his ability to stoke up steam under dramatic situations, explode them in fine style. Praised, too, was Mr. Odets' peculiar vulgate in which a girl is a "squab" or a "melon," thoughts are sometimes articulated by the titles of popular songs and a state of amorous infatuation occurs when "the little love bugs get into you." The play as a play, however, critics unanimously found confused, pretentious, empty. Mr. Odets was fervently wished better luck next time...
...metaphosphate story was narrated to the 50 sightseers last week by the Melon Institute's Director Edward Ray Weidlem, 48, co-author of Science in Action, who next week will receive the Chemical Industry Medal for 1935. They saw samples of Columbian Carbon Co's carbon black for lacquers, which, ground to particles .000001 centimetre in diameter, is so black that it makes other blacks look brown. If any of them had neglected to shave before breakfast, he could have accepted the free-shave offer of the research man for Schick Dry Shaver, Inc who shaves twelve...
...Weibel swiftly drew a vertical slash down the taut, iodine-painted belly. The flesh parted. The melon like womb protruded. Dr. Preissecker's camera whirred steadily. Dr. Weibel slashed open the womb, ran his hand under the child, lifted it out of its mother. The camera whirred, clicked, fluttered, stopped. Dr. Weibel looked at Dr. Preissecker. Dr. Preissecker fumbled with the camera. The film had broken. Dr. Preissecker tried to fix it, grew confused...
...latest Ford balance sheet revealed that the Man of Dearborn and his son had quietly cut a stock melon during 1934. The old $100 par shares had been split 20-for-1 into 3,452,000 shares of $5 par value. Surplus & reserves at the year end stood...