Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adopted a resolution appropriating $300,000 toward restoration of the frigate Constitution ("Old Ironsides"). ¶ Passed a bill raising Lieut.-Commander Joel Thompson Boone, physician to President Hoover, to captain's rank and pay. ¶ Passed a bill to put interstate bus traffic under the Interstate Commerce Commission...
...that Luckies had fallen back on their toasting campaign only when the Federal Trade Commission ordered them to stop using "fake testimonials and specious argument that all can keep slender by smoking that brand of cigarettes." The Camel advertisement also objected to the inference that the cigaret industry used "rank tobaccos" with harmful irritants, saying, in effect, that while George Washington Hill could legitimately discuss the rank tobacco in Luckies and its improvement by toasting, he should not attribute such rankness to the industry as a whole. Concerning toasting itself, the Camel copy said...
From a natural gas standpoint the new company will rank with Columbia Gas & Electric Corp. and Cities Service Co. It expects to market some 190,000,000,000 cu. ft. of natural gas in 1930. The operating gross revenue of its constituent companies, from natural gas alone, totaled $22,000,000 in 1929 and is expected to reach $26,000,000 in 1930. There also will be considerable revenue from oil, sulphur and gasoline operations. The territory served extends from St. Louis to Monterey, Mexico, including cities such as Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis, New Orleans, Dallas, Fort Worth. Beaumont, Houston...
...Harvard Dramatic Club has acquired the distinction of being pushed simultaneously in opposite directions by the CRIMSON and the Boston Transcript. The CRIMSON prefers things familiar and worthy to extravagant, exotic, and often bloodthirsty world premieres: while the Transcript deplores the sinking of the Harvard Dramatic Club to the rank of a second-rate Stock Company, and transfers its publicity from the theatre page to the Schoolboy Notes. The tragedy of this contest lies in the fact that both editors have right on their side and would seem to have the same aim: that the Harvard Dramatic Club should contribute...
Research workers set themselves to the task of finding the relative Vitamin G content of various foods. The results of this work will be announced at Atlanta. One paper will deal with beef, will rank the value-parts as: liver, kidney, heart, muscle...