Word: parente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earnings. By December 1932 bank loans had been cut $24,000,000. That year the company earned $17,204,000. Between January and June 1933 he paid off another $9,500,000 out of earnings. Last month two more subsidiaries each paid obligations of $6,000,000 to the parent company by the private sale of guaranteed notes. Last week, when Columbia Gas announced 1933 earnings of $12,496,000, Mr. Gossler proudly informed his stockholders that their company was now entirely out of debt to the banks...
There was no evidence that Father Lugena had mistreated his boy. But it was only natural that he should feel some sympathy with another, more famed Hannibal parent, "Pap" Finn, to whom it seemed downright unreasonable that Huckleberry should be sent to school, sleep in a bed and nightshirt like a "sweet-scented dandy" instead of cooking for "Pap" and running his errands. Nevertheless, ruled the National Compliance Board: "Child labor will not be tolerated regardless of relationship...
...Metropolitan Opera Company has been its failure to engage Baritone John Charles Thomas, to reintroduce Tenor Paul Althouse. Last week Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza endeavored to make up for lost time. Baritone Thomas was ordered to get himself into tail coat and top hat and enact the worried parent in Traviata. Plump Tenor Althouse, who sang at the Met twelve years ago, was told to slip on a bearskin for Siegmund in Die Walkure...
Everybody agreed that since it was financially impossible to construct the line from Craig straight through to Salt Lake (346 mi.), the next best thing was to build a short line which would connect with the parent Denver & Rio Grande, which does run to Salt Lake. It would save Denver & Rio Grande 173 mi. between the two cities. But neither parent nor child was rich and government aid was not obtained until...
...worth of Treasury disbursements to Federal Housing Corp. Comptroller McCarl, without whose signature no Government money may be spent, refused to countersign. To Secretary of the Interior Ickes, FHC president, he explained: FHC, set up under the National Industrial Recovery Act, was to be a permanent organization, whereas its parent agency was an emergency one. That did not look legal...