Word: melons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lute had its heyday from the 14th to the 17th Century. It has a pear-shaped body built of pine or cedar staves pieced together like the crescent divisions of a melon. Its neck (lengths varied) has a fretted keyboard over which are stretched perhaps four, perhaps as many as 24 gut strings. Lutanists (musicians who play the flute are flautists; musicians who play the lute are Internists or lutenists) plucked or twanged the strings either with their fingers or a plectrum. Because of its spoon-shaped body the instrument cannot be confused with the modern guitar which...
...Goodyear Melon. After a near-decade of financial trouble, reorganization and management strife Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. last week announced a stock melon. To stockholders it will sell a new common issue for $50 a share. Present common is around $90 a share. With the $41,480,000 derived from this sale Goodyear will pay off $7,500,000 notes due in December, will build a manufacturing unit in the South, will improve its financial position...
Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., president of General Motors, before sailing for Europe on the Olympic last week, issued a long statement, of which the meat was that General Motors would cut a very fat melon in November. The stock did not soar, because some such statement had long been expected in Wall Street and the stock had already completed a steady rise...
...Melon Longchamps Consomm de Cheval...
Blair & Co. of Manhattan Hayden, Stone & Co. of Manhattan Hemphill, Noyes & Co. of Manhattan Knight, Dysart & Gamble of St. Louis J. C. Willson & Co. of Louisville, Ky. Lend, Goodwin & Tucker, Inc., of San Francisco. -Curtiss cut the first melon several weeks...