Word: pruned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prune-proud San Jose, Calif., at a breakfast that was prunes from end to end, the California Chiropractors' Association suggested in a friendly way that the prune be renamed "Petite Pomme Noire d'Amour" (Little Black Apple of Love). Prune-growers favored simply...
...Commodity Credit Corp. said it would lend California prune growers 1½? a lb. on their surpluses-$8,745,000 all together...
PRAY TO THE EARTH-Evelyn Eaton-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). A proper picaresque novel, as concentrated as a dried prune, about a rapscallion French peasant...
...assets in 1936 amounted to almost $385,000,000, has gradually accumulated properties and organized new companies till it is the customary public utilities tangle of holding companies, operating companies, companies that are not purely one nor the other, and indiscriminate holdings ranging from Manhattan real estate to California prune orchards. After it is simplified, it will keep no less than 108 non-utilities, including 89 waterworks companies which are not defined as utilities by the act. But it will have only three operating and holding utility subsidiaries-West Penn Power Co., Monongahela West Penn Public Service Co. and Potomac...
...tell American Water Works to get rid of its prune orchards. But if it wished to, said the Commissioners, it could take "a reasonable period of time" to sell them-an obvious effort to convince other utilities that if they become a little more sociable SEC is perfectly willing to make friends...