Word: money
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lesseps' conviction for fraud after bubonic plague, smallpox, malaria and yellow jack had decimated some 70,000 laborers, and $400,000,000 of his stockholders' money had gone down the drain...
...most prosperous of all Hearst magazines is Good Housekeeping. Pioneering in insisting on respectable advertising copy, it has grown buxom from advertising brought in by the seals of approval it issues to manufacturers and by its money-back guarantee to consumers. This week the Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against Hearst Magazines Inc., charging Good Housekeeping with "misleading and deceptive acts and practices in the issuance of guarantys, seals of approval and the publication in its advertising pages of grossly exaggerated and false claims for products advertised therein." Further charges...
...still democratic Government took no action, and TIME remained on French newsstands. Publisher Luce expressed regrets for TIME'S too-general indictment of the Parisian press. Fortnight later the Government, in an effort to put an end to venality, arrested a brace of journalists on charges of taking money from foreign countries. Thus public opinion in Paris was thoroughly aroused to the question of honesty-in-j ournalism...
...yearly interest bill from almost $6,000,000 to well under $2,000,000. Last May he got three insurance companies who own its debt to accept an interest cut from 4¼% to 3⅝% just as though he were hiring the money at the market...
...here she ceased to reason-she felt that he was not magnetic." The Colonel certainly was. When all four turned up in New Orleans after the Yankees captured the city, Colonel Carter found his playful love affair with Lillie growing serious, married her despite his need for money, the political favoritism that blocked his promotion, her father's fear of him, her sophisticated New Orleans aunt's frank advances toward him. As sardonic a figure as Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind, but far more plausible, Colonel Carter became a drinker without believing he drank, sold government...