Word: savely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Abernon visit, the great event in Argentina, last week, was the end of a cataclysmic six-month drought. Both the flax and wheat crops were on the point of utter ruin. Grazing grass had withered and died. Ranchers had petitioned for Government aid to buy fodder and save their cattle...
...which handle thousands of these cases, there may be several officers, to make the probation treatment close and effective. Not only will this development relieve Federal prisons from a large number of first offenders who never need to go but it will reclaim thousands of them, and eventually will save the Government far more than the salaries of these officers...
...friends. Most of the photography is poor. One of the rare good shots: newsreel of the actual crowd waiting in Berlin streets to see Richthofen's body carried by. Gold Diggers of Broadway (Warner). Avery Hopwood's comedy about a rich man who tried to save his heir from a chorus girl is the framework of an indifferent screen musical show. As a technical accomplishment, Gold Diggers of Broadway has virtues: it is well-dressed, ambitious, brightly colored, energetic; it has some passable tunes in it, and the chorus dances nicely. It fails because the story-framework...
...become Chairman of the Board of a new Five Borough Trading Corp. (his first venture in business outside of politics). The Five Borough, fostered by Jerome B. Sullivan & Co. of the New York Curb Exchange, is to finance "small, sound, growing businesses" for the benefit of the people, to save them from losing their money to tipsters and bucketshops...
...Already Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. makes gas-electric buses (to save gear shifting in traffic) and oil-electric rail cars (which need neither third rail lines nor great power plants). Recently Canadian National Railways put into service a great oil-electric locomotive on its Toronto-Montreal route. *For a confirmed report of Mr. Smith's newest occupation...