Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group went first, stayed longest. At a press conference the President of the U. S. voiced his extreme displeasure with the president of General Motors. Waiving his usual ban on direct quotation, as he had done in squelching Mr. Lewis, the President struck out, this time not with a mild generality but with blunt specification. Rapped he: "I told them [the conferees] I was not only disappointed in the refusal of Mr. Sloan to come to Wash ington but I regarded it as a very unfortunate decision on his part...
Soviet Supreme Court in handing down a verdict so comparatively mild as to take Moscow's veteran corps of correspondents completely by surprise and astound all Russia (see below...
...true that the devil finds work for idle hands to do, the No. i U. S. Mephistopheles is currently a mild little Philadelphian named Charles Darrow. Mr. Darrow's claim to the title, based on Monopoly, U. S. parlor craze of 1936, was last week reinforced when Parker Brothers began to distribute his second invention for idle hands. The new Darrow game is Bulls & Bears. Success of Monopoly, which was last week estimated to be in its sixth million and selling faster than ever, gave Bulls & Bears a pre-publication sale of 100,000, largest on record...
...credit sales mount to an ever higher peak that beyond the highest peak there is always a valley?" Not daunted by this notion was Joseph L. Fowler, of Boston's Jordan Marsh, who urged the end of the dunning letters, proposed for delinquent accounts notices that were "mild in tone, neat in appearance, impersonal in nature." An outside suggestion carne from President Frederic Arlington Williams of Cannon Mills (towels) who said his company once "seriously considered discontinuing our efforts to sell to department stores." Taking a dig at Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. and its perennial price...
...hens in the East, the mild, muddy winter of 1936-37 has seemed enough like spring to stimulate prodigious, pre-seasonal laying. Not long after Christmas farmers found themselves with more pails of fresh eggs than they could sell. Early last month the New York egg market was glutted, wholesale prices were abnormally low, farmers were beginning to reduce chicken feed and to slaughter too-productive pullets. Meanwhile the great chain grocery stores which sell New Yorkers about one billion eggs a year were making about 11? a dozen on the spread between wholesale and retail prices. Upon this scene...