Word: parents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flute. Their little flirtation is doing nicely when he confesses that he is no page but a spy. Soldiers are looking for him. When they enter he hides; the Princess is in process of lying him out of it but he surrenders himself. The King, a not really heavy parent, regretfully prepares to do his duty, when the page in time's nick disproves his spydom, proves himself a king...
...single billboard, not one barbecue stand, and only one place ... so far as I know . . . where a guy can buy a hot dog . . . the children over there, too . . . wouldn't dream of saying, 'Oh, shut up, pop' or 'Scram' to a grey-haired parent. No modernism about them. . . . The way they drink, too! Can you imagine a people that just fiddle along with an occasional sip of wine, instead of getting plastered...
...proved profitable until the Dingley tariff ended it forever. As U. S. manufacturers do today in foreign lands, the resourceful Stehlis promptly started manufacture of silks safe within the tariff wall. Now the U. S. branch of the family business is four times as large as the sturdy Swiss parent. Of the fourth generation is blond, pink-cheeked Henry E. Stehli, able young secretary and treasurer of Stehli Silks Corp. To reap the harvest of rough crepe Stehli has recalled 2,000 workers, its mills have been stepped up to three shifts. Production in anticipation of another silk year...
...group of executives headed by President & General Manager Arthur B. Newhall of the $24,000,000 Hood Rubber Co. last week bought control of their concern from the parent B. F. Goodrich Co. Producer chiefly of rubber footwear, Hood was acquired by Goodrich in 1929 and all Goodrich footwear activities were concentrated in the Hood plant in Watertown, Mass. No sooner had Goodrich made the purchase than rubber footwear sales began to fall. The mild weather last winter dropped sales for the industry to less than one-half of pre-Depression volume. Officials offered no explanation of the Hood sale...
...offered to exchange the notes for a new 364-day issue. The Commission has jurisdiction only over borrowing of a year or more. All but $1,000.000 of the maturing issue was exchanged. Mr. Hopson testily denies that he is "milking" Staten Island Edison. Since in good times the parent company sunk large sums in improving the subsidiary, he can see no good reason why the child should not help the parent in sorry times...