Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week President Hoover scanned the 1931 Budget estimates. They did not make pleasant reading. They showed that the costs of government are continually mounting. Army, Navy, Postal Service and Public Works would cost $300,000,000 more than they had last year. The figures depressed the Hoover hope for tax reduction...
...many a Manhattanite the Hell Gate Brewery of George Ehret is a familiar landmark. To many more George Ehret's lager beer is a pleasant memory. Last week it was announced that the brewery would close on Aug. 1, would be sold, torn down...
...Herrick, one of Banker-Ambassador Henry Morgenthau. When a new caddy joins the caddy-shed gang at the Piping Rock Club on Long Island, one of the first persons he learns to recognize is a very tall, very lean, very sunburned man with a decided aquiline nose, a pleasant smile. "That's Russell Doubleday," the new caddy is told. "He's a swell guy." The new caddy soon learns that though Mr. Doubleday plays golf only a little under 100, "swell guy" is a good description...
...down from Scotland to London, said "Flying is the only way to travel," but announced no further disarmament plans. His proposed visit to the U. S.? loudly protested by Tories as undignified toadying to a foreign country? disappeared for the time being into a mist of postponements and pleasant hypotheses. Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium who, at Geneva in May, first told the world about President Hoover's Yardstick (TIME, May 6), headed for London to confer. Waiting for him. Ambassador Dawes, like any tourist, lunched at the Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street...
...tons. Metallurgists see no likelihood of new tin fields being soon discovered and many of the mines now being operated will run out just as the once-famed Cornish tin mines are now virtually exhausted. Meanwhile the demand for tin constantly increases, thus leaving the tin producer in the pleasant position of meeting an increasing demand with a diminishing supply. Chief tin companies are Anglo-Oriental Malaya, Ltd., British company working a majority of the Malayan and Nigerian mines; and the Patino Mines and Enterprise, Consolidated, organized by Bolivia's Simon Patino. Most of the Dutch mines are government...