Word: nut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bank & Trust Co. needed assistance from friendly interests at the time of the Bank of United States failure. Contrary to report then current, the bank was thoroughly liquid, ready to meet any & all demands of depositors. At the half-year end (June 30) Public National was sound as a nut, reported cash & Governments more than 70% of deposits...
...were named for him and not because of the slogan: "Packed tight; Kept right." He managed to sell Australians gum by changing the name to "chewing sweets for "gum" was connected with "glue." He has not yet solved the problem of making Orientals chew gum instead of betel nut. To do so would mean 200,000,000 new customers already chew-conscious...
...several humble citizens for restraining trade but the defense hardly winced for this suit is civil, not criminal. Lawyers Fly & Rice are not new to trust busting. Besides sugar, Mr. Fly has been after the Asphalt Shingle and Roofing industry. Before that he broke up a combination of rivet, nut & bolt makers. Mr. Rice won his anti-trust spurs against a chicken combine...
...Springs several months each year and special exercises at Albany have made it possible for the Governor to walk 100 ft. or so with braces and canes. When standing at crowded public functions, he still clings precautiously to a friend's arm. Constitutionally he is as sound as a nut and always has been. His affliction makes people come to him to transact business, saves him useless motion, enables him to get prodigious amounts of work done at a sitting. Governor Roosevelt is confident of ultimate total recovery...
...concession had been cancelled by failure of United to comply with certain terms, ordered work stopped. When United's engineers showed no signs of abandoning the project, President Vincente Mejia Colindres said that Honduran honor and sovereignty had been violated, that force would be used if necessary. Beech-Nut Packing Co. (bacon, coffee, candy, chewing gum) last week sold its subsidiary Beech-Nut Co. of Canada, Ltd. to Life Savers, Inc., owned by Drug, Inc. Chief item in the sale was Beech-Nut's plant at Hamilton, Ont. equipped for making gum & candy. Hitz Hotels. In receivership is Detroit...