Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attention was diverted at this point by a stenographer who was quietly emptying all the spittoons on a pink plush chair. During the scuffle the chair had been set afire by a cigar ember...
...human nutrition. Rats, on the other hand, have the same eating habits as man. They need the same minerals and vitamins, fall prey to many of the same diseases. On them new serums, drugs and poisons are tried out. More experimental work has been done with the white, pink-eyed rat (Mus Norvegicus albinus) than with the meek guinea pig - more, in fact, than with all other mammals combined. If men are ever able to thrive on synthetic food pills, those pills must first suffice...
Only a pale pink is Novelist James Timothy Farrell, who, like his hero "Studs" Lonigan (Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, Judgment Day), began in Chicago a generation ago as the frilled darling of an Irish family, grew up to be wonderfully rough & tough. Progressively ruddier are Novelist Josephine Herbst (The Executioner Waits); Playwright Albert Bein (Let Freedom Ring); Critic Granville Hicks ( The Great Tradition), who on his Fellowship will carry past 1890 his revolutionary interpretation of U. S. literature. Ultra Red is satiric Poet Kenneth Fearing, who bitterly wrote of a poor man run down...
Last month New York State Insurance Superintendent Louis Pink was offered $10,031,000 for National Surety Corp., successor to the big Manhattan Fidelity-Surety Company which slipped into the hands of Mr. Pink's department (TIME, March 23). This high bid for all of National's 100,000 shares of stock, was made by Commercial Investment Trust, cash-heavy installment financier. Last week, however, the courts ordered Mr. Pink to reject C. I. T.'s bid, accept one from Banc-america-Blair Corp. for 70,000 shares at a slightly higher per-share price...
...last week the Corporation, under the jurisdiction of State Insurance Superintendent Louis Pink, had made encouraging progress. When Commissioner Pink offered to sell the stock (100,000 shares) of National Surety Corp. to the highest bidder, seven bids ranging from $6,545,000 to $10,031,000, cash, were made. High bidder was Henry Ittleson's Commercial Investment Trust Corp., big financier of automobile and other installment purchases. Superintendent Pink considered the C. I. T. bid adequate, recommended its acceptance. Some creditors & stockholders protested, estimated the value of the stock up to $27,000,000. Opinion on William Street...