Word: prospered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lighthouse by the Sea. Just as Life has run dog pictures for years successfully, often with somewhat irrelevant humor, so dog pictures on the screen will prosper no matter how pertinent the application. This present sample has a superbly absurd story about the blind ancient who keeps the light, his lovely daughter, her marcelled boy friend. Smugglers and kidnapping. Police Dog Rin-Tin-Tin does most of the rescuing, lights the beacon on the fatal night. For most people he is an all-sufficing hero...
...manufacturing plants, especially in Germany, are reported in good shape. Labor is highly trained, abundant and heartily sick of Bolshevism, provided that employment at fair rates can be obtained. Most practical business men are fully aware of the fact that when industry is sound and lacks only capital to prosper, the investor who provides the last dollars needed secures the greatest profit, and does so most quickly. What has been true of American corporate reorganizations, it is felt, will also be found true of similar reorganizations of the basic and established European industries, with this country filling the role...
...Farmers. "To the farmers of the United States also we promise not patronage but such laws and such administration of the laws as will enable them to prosper in their own right. . . . They feel today, more severely perhaps than any others, the depressing effect of discriminatory taxation. Buying in a protected market and selling in a market open to the world, they have been forced to contribute to the profits of those in other industries with no compensating benefit to themselves. . . . We propose to see to it that the discriminations which the tariff makes against the farmer shall be removed...
...imagination of his audience by referring to "COTTON: SUDANESE WHITE GOLD." He said that the Government was making great efforts to increase the cotton production of the Commonwealth, not only in the Sudan but in other British-African possessions and in India. He said that a Nation could prosper by the "smell of the market" and to make the odor appetizing he announced that he was setting up an inquiry "into conditions of industry, particularly with reference to the industries working for the export trade...
...Lafayette (French)?Grantland Rice, famed sports writer; Prosper Champion, "sparkplug king" of Flint, Mich...