Word: mix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Something of a nightmare to the big dairy companies, counter freezers do not dispense individual portions for a dime but they are supposed to permit a druggist to make his own ice cream at a considerable saving. No mixing is done in the store; the prepared "mix"' is bought from dairy companies. The dairy companies much prefer to sell not ''mix" but ice cream, in which the profit is bigger...
Circulating letters fraudulently secured from dissatisfied users; boycotting distributors; shutting off the supply of "mix"; offering to purchase used counter freezers from druggists at exorbitant prices; threatening to set up rival drugstores if a counter freezer was installed; sponsoring legislation and ordinances drawn to penalize users; persuading sanitary inspectors to harass stores where freezers were employed...
Almost the only optimist was Illustrator Frederic G. Cooper: "Drawings will always have a monopoly of fiction illustration. The reason is in itself a tribute to photography; the latter is too definite to be tolerated. The obvious truth of photography will not mix with the frank fictitiousness of fiction...
...Mickey," if you get there in time to see him, dashingly rescues the little cowgirl who thought she could take care of herself. His gun battles make even the old Tom Mix look like a piker...
...cards which were found in the old deal. This time, however, not only the aces of high finance were wild, the kings of big industry were also wild. . . . The first two years of the New Deal shall be remembered as two years of compromise . . . two years of endeavoring to mix bad with good, two years of surrender, two years of matching the puerile, puny brains of idealists against the virile viciousness of business and finance-two years of economic failure...