Word: melone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Melon. "This is the Columbia Broadcasting System. The advertisers who pay for the programs you listen to morning, noon and night bought more time on the world's largest single broadcasting chain in October than in any previous month of our history. We billed them $1,700,000, which was 56% more than in October last year. And in the first ten months of the year we billed our customers for more than $11,000,000 worth of time-a 55% increase over the same period of last year...
...Administration, however, pleasuring the Press is currently less important than pleasuring businessmen who are jittery at the thought that melon-cutting may be forever denied them. Last week Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins arrived in Washington full of ideas for cutting new melons for the unemployed. Before he left for Paris he struck a reassuring note by declaring: "The Administration is making an honest and a sincere effort to bolster up capitalism...
Words help businessmen to get their bearings but deeds mean more. Satisfied with the "principle" laid down by Melon-Cutter Roper, they waited anxiously for the next move in Washington to define "fair" profits, "proportionate" salaries...
...fire a cashier had two melons left over from lunch. He put them in the safe. The fire melted the iron, exploded the melons. They dissolved into a thick juice that covered what was beneath them. Last week salvagers found 36,000 Turkish pounds ($28,000) preserved in melon juice...
...Harvard newly initiated has not shown the proper discretion as regards unknowing summer school belles. On the opening day four girls noticing the strange odor of melon went sniffing around Stoughton Hall until they traced the source to a half-empty bottle of Golden Wedding Rye. The four indignant maidens hastily disposed of the offending liquid. Either the whiskey was poor or lese there is something rotten in Pembroke, or perhaps Brown does not coach its women...