Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...declined them all. U. S. District Attorney J. Howard McGrath from Providence was his guest two evenings at the Dunes. Otherwise he kept alone. By week's end, when he departed in his big official Packard for a Michigan visit, he was fairly well rested. His nose was red, his freckles refulgent. He felt he had conscientiously obeyed the orders of his Chief, who had firmly told him: "Frank, I want you to get out of town [Washington]. . . ." But he could not relax entirely, for of all the top men in the U. S. Government, not excepting even...
...Roses red and violets blew. This song has many variations...
Roses are red, violets are blue
Goodrich, when the rubber market collapsed in 1937, took a $5,653,000 inventory write-down which put it $878,580 in the red (even after a $593,249 profit on foreign exchange). But last week, Goodrich's President Samuel Brown Robertson reported sales up 27.4%, a $3,122,728 profit, instead of last year's $209,551 loss...
...last June heavy-jowled Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair, sick & tired of the red ink on the ledgers of his sprawling Consolidated Oil Corp., fixed his steely blue eyes on the brawling petroleum industry and made a statement for all to hear. Said he: "The price of [finished] products must go up or the price of raw material must go down...